Ekel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: disgust, loathing
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: CBG Familienamenbank, 2007
/ɛkəl/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Ekel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 314K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 3.6M
- BRBrazil1 in 5.4M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ekel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- 1 in 314K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110 named Екель, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Екель in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UA Ukraine and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)disgust, loathing
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ekel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Екель | 68 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 341K | — | Екель | 17 |
| NL Netherlands | 55 | 1 in 314K | 55 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 39 | 1 in 5.4M | 39 | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 3M | — | Екель | 9 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 969K | — | Екель | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ekel is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In zom, climber
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Dominique Ekelb. 1956FRFrench politician
- Fendry Ekelb. 1971NLpainter (born 1971)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 55 | #29,233 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 39 | #124,653 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ekel mean, and where does it come from?
- disgust, loathing Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Ekel?
- In the etymology graph, Heikel is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ekel?
- It depends on the language: in Indonesian /ɛkəl/; in Turkish /ecɛl/; in German /ˈeːkl̩/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Ekel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 110 people named Екель in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ekel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ekel is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 314 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ekel?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 55 people named Ekel in 2007, about 1 in 314 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ekel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ekelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ekel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.