Gumpel
surname · Latin script
Gumpel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.9Mas Guempel(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 199K
- SESweden1 in 928K
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 Gumpel 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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 199K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 named Guempel, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Guempel in GB United Kingdom, CA Canada, CD Congo - Kinshasa and 1 more and Gümpel in DE Germany.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gumpel 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 | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Guempel | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 199K | — | Gümpel | 35 |
| US United States | — | 176as Guempel | 1 in 1.9M | 176 | Gumpel | 113 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Guempel | 14 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Guempel | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 11 | 1 in 928K | 11 | — | 2 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Gumpel | 6 |
| DK Denmark | — | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
| NR Nauru | #561 | — | — | — | Guempel | 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Johanna Gumpelb. 1847PLholocaust victim, b. 1847-10-01
- Hermann Gumpelb. 1862DEGerman manufacturer
- Julius Gumpelb. 1865DEholocaust victim, b. 1865-12-27
- Erika Gumpelb. 1870PLHolocaust victim (born 1870)
- Mordechai Gumpelb. 1912ILIsraeli painter and sculptor born in Germany (1912-2009)
- Peter Gumpelb. 1923DEGerman Jesuit priest and historian (1923–2022)
- Werner Gumpelb. 1930DEGerman economist
- Udo Gümpelb. 1954DEGerman journalist
- Anna Gumpelb. 1996ITItalian actress
- David Gumpeldirector
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 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 130 | #130,610 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 119 | #131,366 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 117 | #144,270 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 11 | #38,007 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #61,325 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- In which country does Gumpel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Guempel in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gumpel?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 11 people named Gumpel, about 1 in 928 thousand residents.
- How common is Gumpel compared with other names?
- In Nauru, Gumpel is the 561st most common surname of 1,280 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gumpel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gumpelThe 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, “Gumpel” — the 561st most common surname in Nauru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.