Hickel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: pet form of Hick 4
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Hickel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 365K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 521K
- CZCzechia1 in 630K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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)
- Record sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- 1 in 365K (inferred from the name graph)
638 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)pet form of Hick 4.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hickel 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 | 638 | 1 in 521K | 686 | Hickel | 12 |
| BR Brazil | 66 | 1 in 3.2M | 66 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 23 | 1 in 365K | 23 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 17 | 1 in 630K | 17 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 14 | 1 in 2.7M | 8 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 13 | 1 in 1.3M | 13 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
638 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)- Joseph Hickelb. 1736ATAustrian painter (1736-1807)
- Anton Hickelb. 1745DEAustrian artist (1745-1798)
- Paul Robert Hickelb. 1861FREnglish-born French botanist (1865–1935)
- Walter Hickelb. 1919USGovernor of Alaska, United States Secretary of the Interior (1919-2010)
- Giselher Hickelb. 1943DEGerman theologian
- Werner Hickelb. 1967DEGerman writer
- Jason Hickelb. 1982USeconomic anthropologist (born 1982)
- Zoe Hickelb. 1992USAmerican women's ice hockey player
- Hal Hickelb. 2000USAmerican animator
- Teri HickelUSpolitician
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 686 | #35,343 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 656 | #32,939 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 638 | #35,294 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 66 | #86,090 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 23 | #33,003 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 17 | #58,710 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 17 | #16,185 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 13 | #58,862 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #151,567 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #179,074 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Hickel mean, and where does it come from?
- pet form of Hick 4. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Hickel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 638 people named Hickel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hickel.
- Where is Hickel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hickel is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 365 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hickel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 638 people named Hickel in 2010, about 1 in 521 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/hickelThe 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, “Hickel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.