Gertel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Gerd; Diminutivbildung mit -el (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/xeɾtel/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Gertel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country: 42 people, counted by RENAPER.
- ARArgentina1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
- PLPoland1 in 3.8M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
42 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Gertel
- Spanish:/xeɾtel/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Gerd; Diminutivbildung mit -el. 61 Belege.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Where the surname Gertel is found
(measured from records)Gertel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 42 | 1 in 1.1M | 42 | Gertel | 23 |
| BR Brazil | 25 | 1 in 8.5M | 25 | Gertel | 23 |
| PL Poland | 10 | 1 in 3.8M | 6 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Gertel | 10 |
42 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Willi Gertelb. 1945DEGerman botanist (1945-1999)
- Moshe Gertelb. 1946ILIsraeli swimmer
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 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Gertel?
- In Spanish /xeɾtel/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Gertel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Gerd; Diminutivbildung mit -el.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gertel?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 42 people named Gertel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gertel. After it come Brazil, Poland and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gertel most common?
- Gertel is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gertel?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 42 people named Gertel, about 1 in 1.1 million 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/gertelThe 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, “Gertel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.