Harel
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Harel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ornamental name from Harel, a place name mentioned in the Bible.
- USUnited States1 in 657K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 345K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 365K
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
- 191 (measured from records)
- 1 in 345K (inferred from the name graph)
506 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
ornamental name from Harel, a place name mentioned in the Bible.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Harel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 506 | 1 in 657K | 594 | Harel | 191 |
| PL Poland | 111 | 1 in 345K | 81 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 41 | 1 in 1.2M | 41 | Harel | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 23 | 1 in 365K | 23 | — | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 17 | 1 in 689K | 17 | — | 3 |
| IL Israel | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Harel | 73 |
506 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Harel is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, De l’ancien français harel « cri, émeute, tumulte », surnom d’un individu tapageur, querelleur, séditieux.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)
- Maximilien-Marie Harelb. 1749FRborn 1749; died 1823
- Marie Harelb. 1761FRAlleged inventor of Camembert cheese
- Ben-Zion Harelb. 1892ILIsraeli politician (1892-1972)
- Moshe Harelb. 1920NLArchitect (1920-2001)
- Louise Harelb. 1946CACanadian politician
- David Harelb. 1950ILIsraeli computer scientist
- Jean-Louis Harelb. 1965FROlympic cyclist
- Alma Har'elb. 1976ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli-American director
- Eden Harelb. 1976ILIsraeli actress
- Amir Harelfilm producer
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 43 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 594 | #39,885 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 506 | #42,790 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 393 | #50,055 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 56 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 56 | #45,882 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 55 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 55 | #46,965 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 41 | #51,501 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 41 | #50,851 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 23 | #33,003 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 17 | #52,376 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Harel mean, and where does it come from?
- ornamental name from Harel, a place name mentioned in the Bible. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Harel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 506 people named Harel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled harel.
- Where is Harel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Harel is densest in Poland — about 1 in 345 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Harel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 506 people named Harel in 2010, about 1 in 657 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/harelThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Harel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.