Flegel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the byname Flegel, 'threshing flail; coarse person'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈfɫɛɡəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Flegel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 497K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 132K
- CACanada≈1 in 167K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 175 (measured from records)
- 1 in 132K (inferred from the name graph)
669 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the byname Flegel, 'threshing flail; coarse person'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Flegel 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.
669 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Flegel is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, occupational name for a peasant/gardener; from flail
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, flail (historical weapon and agricultural implement)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Berufsname für den Drescher nach dem Dreschflegel; oft abwertend für grobe Menschen. 897+25 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, nickname from Flegel 'boor, lout'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, 'threshing flail; coarse person'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Georg Flegelb. 1566DEGerman Baroque painter (1566-1638)
- Carl Flegelb. 1850LT(1850-1928)
- Eduard Robert Flegelb. 1855LTGerman explorer (1855-1886)
- Johann Flegelb. 1898DEGerman politician (1898-1961)
- Erna Flegelb. 1911DEGerman nurse (1911–2006)
- Manfred Flegelb. 1927DEGerman politician (1927-2018)
- Walter Flegelb. 1934DEGerman career officer and writer (1934-2011)
- Sissi Flegelb. 1944DEGerman author (1944–2021)
- Murray Flegelb. 1948CACanadian ice hockey defenceman
- Małgorzata Flegel-Siedlerb. 1960PLPolish actress
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)
Attested in 13 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 669 | #33,990 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 654 | #36,772 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 647 | #33,292 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 159 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 159 | #20,271 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 132 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 132 | #23,416 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 48 | #30,212 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 48 | #10,852 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Flegel mean, and where does it come from?
- from the byname Flegel, 'threshing flail; coarse person' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Flegel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfɫɛɡəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Flegel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 669 people named Flegel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled flegel.
- Where is Flegel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Flegel is densest in Poland — about 1 in 132 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Flegel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 669 people named Flegel in 2010, about 1 in 497 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/flegelThe 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, “Flegel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.