Fehl
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Fehl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: fault; flaw; failure.
- USUnited States1 in 469K(measured from records)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 45K
- DEGermany≈1 in 111K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 185 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
fault; flaw; failure
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fehl 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Fehl | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Fehl | 58 |
| US United States | 710 | 1 in 469K | 719 | Fehl | 185 |
| IT Italy | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 569K | — | Fehl | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 807K | — | Fehl | 7 |
| SG Singapore | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 213K | — | Fehl | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 377K | — | Fehl | 4 |
| IE Ireland | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 240K | — | Fehl | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Max Fehlb. 1868CZHolocaust victim (born 1868)
- Helene Fehlb. 1873ATHolocaust victim (born 1873)
- Fred Fehlb. 1906USAmerican photographer (1906-1995)
- Philipp Fehlb. 1920USAmerican art historian (1920-2000)
- Raina Fehlb. 1920ATAustrian-American art historian (1920-2009)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 719 | #30,614 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 710 | #34,389 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 710 | #32,396 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Fehl mean, and where does it come from?
- fault; flaw; failure Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Fehl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Fehl in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fehl.
- How common is the name Fehl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 710 people named Fehl in 2010, about 1 in 469 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fehlThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Fehl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.