Hengel

• Dutch:/hɛŋɛl/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Hengel is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English65%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Hengel in English.

• Dutch9.9%

  fishing rod

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• German8.4%

  metonymic occupational name for a maker of handles, hooks, or hangers, from Middle High German hengel ‘handle’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

  Shortened form of Dutch van Hengel, a habitational name for someone from Hengel, near Houthalen, in the Belgian province of Limburg.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

  from a pet form of the personal name Heng.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• French5.5%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Hengel in French.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

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

• French surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Netherlands

  Also written Hèngél

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Hengel 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 enm, hinge (device a door pivots on)

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Moxie Hengelb. 1857USAmerican baseball player
• Martin Hengelb. 1926DEGerman historian of religion (1926–2009)
• Dave Hengelb. 1961USAmerican baseball player

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).

22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Where does the name Hengel come from?

metonymic occupational name for a maker of handles, hooks, or hangers, from Middle High German hengel ‘handle’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.

How do you pronounce Hengel?

In Dutch /hɛŋɛl/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

What does the name Hengel mean?

In Dutch, fishing rod

Which countries have the most people with the surname Hengel?

Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Hengel in the Netherlands, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hengel. After it come United States, Germany, United Kingdom and France; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Hengel?

In the United States, the national register counted 588 people named Hengel in 2010, about 1 in 566 thousand residents.