Gockel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 'Hahn'; also compared with Gogel and GOTT Kf
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈɡɔkəl/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Gockel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 35K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 384K
- CACanada≈1 in 510Kfew records
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 Gockel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 160 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Goeckel in JM Jamaica, PH Philippines, IE Ireland.
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)'Hahn'; also compared with Gogel and GOTT Kf.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gockel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Gockel | 86 |
| US United States | 415 | 1 in 802K | 427 | Gockel | 160 |
| CA Canada | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 509K | — | Gockel | 14 |
| PH Philippines | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Goeckel | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Goeckel | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 45 | 1 in 384K | 45 | Gockel | 9 |
| IE Ireland | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 265K | — | Goeckel | 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)Gockel 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, from the Rufname Gockel / diminutive in -el; also associated with Gogel
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
from Middle High German gogel ‘cheerful’, ‘lively’, either a nickname for someone with a cheerful disposition or an occupational name for an entertainer (modem German Gaukler).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
nickname from a regional term gockel ‘rooster’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
habitational name for someone from a place in Westphalia called Gockeln. According to Bahlow, the place name is derived from gok, an obsolete word for a bog.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, cock, rooster
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)- Eberhard Gockelb. 1636DEGerman physician
- Augustinus Gockelb. 1830DEGerman priest and theologian
- Albert Gockelb. 1860DEGerman physicist (1860–1927)
- Alwin Gockelb. 1882DEGerman engineer
- Franz Gockelb. 1925DEGerman soldier (1925–2005)
- Sigrid Metz-Göckelb. 1940DEGerman sociologist (1940–2025)
- Wolfgang Gockelb. 1945DEGerman archaeologist (1945–2005)
- Anja Gockelb. 1968DEGerman fashion designer
- Sandra Gockelb. 1974DEGerman politician (born 1974)
- Konstantin Gockelb. 2000DEGerman composer
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 427 | #46,839 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 423 | #52,889 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 415 | #50,362 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 45 | #32,752 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Gockel mean, and where does it come from?
- 'Hahn'; also compared with Gogel and GOTT Kf. Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Gockel?
- In German /ˈɡɔkəl/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Gockel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Gockel in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gockel.
- How common is the name Gockel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 415 people named Gockel in 2010, about 1 in 802 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gockelThe 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, “Gockel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.