Goëbel

surname · Latin script

Goëbel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: German surname, a pet form of Godebert, corresponding to Proto-West Germanic *god (“good”) + *berht (“bright”).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 37K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 124K
  • BEBelgium1 in 138K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

9,062 people, 2010

Sources
117 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Goebel in US United States, BE Belgium.

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)

German surname, a pet form of Godebert, corresponding to Proto-West Germanic *god (“good”) + *berht (“bright”).

Sources 2

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Goëbel 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.

Where Goëbel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States9,0621 in 37K9.1KGoebel51
BR Brazil7711 in 275K771——
PL Poland2061 in 186K104——
BE Belgium851 in 138K85Goebel8
CH Switzerland681 in 124K68—2
FI Finland301 in 186K30——
CR Costa Rica291 in 176K29——

9,062 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Goëbel is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname33 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Spanish

    Also written Goebel, Gøbel, Göebel, Goeebel

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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 Goëbel mean, and where does it come from?
German surname, a pet form of Godebert, corresponding to Proto-West Germanic *god (“good”) + *berht (“bright”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
In which country does Goëbel have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 9.1 thousand people named Goëbel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goebel.
Where is Goëbel most common?
Goëbel is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 37 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Goëbel?
In the United States, the national register counted 9,062 people named Goëbel in 2010, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.

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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, “Goëbel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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