Haspel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Haspel 'garn-winch, hoist'; also used of a clumsy or awkward person
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Haspel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 827K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 934K
- BEBelgium1 in 2.3M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Haspel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 827K (inferred from the name graph)
402 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled הספל in IL Israel, PL Poland.
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)from Haspel 'garn-winch, hoist'; also used of a clumsy or awkward person
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world
(measured from records)Haspel 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 | 402 | 1 in 827K | 402 | Haspel | 14 |
| IL Israel | 80as הספל | 1 in 108K | 80 | הספל | 15 |
| BR Brazil | 20 | 1 in 11M | 20 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 15 | 1 in 2.6M | 9 | הספל | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 5 | 1 in 2.3M | 5 | — | 2 |
402 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); 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); 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)Haspel 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.
from Middle High German, Middle Dutch haspel, German Haspel ‘reel’, ‘winch’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who wound thread into a skein from a bobbin or who operated a winch or who manufactured the implements.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, reel (device for a harvesting machine)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Is hasp.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
In Dutch, a hamlet in Utrechtse Heuvelrug, Utrecht, Netherlands
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cim, reel, bobbin
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)- Wilhelm Haspelb. 1898DEGerman entrepreneur and engineer
- Judith Haspelb. 1918ATswimmer
- Dieter Haspelb. 1943ATAustrian director
- Tom van den Haspelb. 1953NLphotographer (born 1953)
- Gina Haspelb. 1956USAmerican intelligence officer (born 1956)
- Gal Haspelb. 1968ILresearcher
- Carynelisa Haspelb. 1971ILresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-5786-3796
- Patrick R. Haspelb. 1974DEDr. rer. nat. Universität Mannheim 2006
- Raoul Haspelb. 1979ATAustrian media artist
- Tamar HaspelUSAmerican journalist
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 402 | #51,723 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 387 | #56,914 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 385 | #50,903 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 20 | #194,891 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 9 | #65,843 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #141,758 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #178,928 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 5 | #98,593 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Haspel mean, and where does it come from?
- from Haspel 'garn-winch, hoist'; also used of a clumsy or awkward person Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Haspel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 402 people named Haspel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled haspel.
- Where is Haspel most common?
- Haspel is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 827 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Haspel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 402 people named Haspel in 2010, about 1 in 827 thousand 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/haspelThe 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, “Haspel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.