Hobel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived on a hill, Middle Low German hovel
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/oʊbəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hobel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 85K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
- ATAustria≈1 in 33K
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 Hobel 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
≈950 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Höbel in DE Germany, TR Türkiye and Hoebel in CD Congo - Kinshasa.
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)
topographic name for someone who lived on a hill, Middle Low German hovel.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hobel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Höbel | 52 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Hoebel | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Hobel | 36 |
| US United States | 258 | 1 in 1.3M | 258 | Hobel | 108 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 965K | — | Höbel | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 69 | 1 in 85K | 69 | Hobel | 2 |
| SG Singapore | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Hobel | 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; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hobel is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, anything that abrades a surface, such as – particularly – a plane, a grater or slicer, a spokeshave, a safety razor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, small bird of prey (precise definition is uncertain or may vary; possibly a falcon)
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)
- Wolf Hobelb. 15251525-1576; Dt. Schreib- u. Rechenmeister in Schweinfurt;Verf. im VD-16
- Adolf Heinrich Hobelb. 1910ATAustrian diplomat (1910-1995)
- Philip Hobelb. 1920USAmerican film producer
- Mara Hobelb. 1971USAmerican actress
- Dave HobelUSbasketball player
- Julia HobelATAustrian association football 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 258 | #74,826 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 257 | #70,906 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 243 | #83,373 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 69 | #7,859 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Hobel mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived on a hill, Middle Low German hovel. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Hobel?
- In the etymology graph, Heuvel and Hebel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Hobel?
- A machine transcription gives /oʊbəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hobel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 948 people named Hobel in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled höbel.
- How common is the name Hobel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 258 people named Hobel in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million 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/hobelThe 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, “Hobel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.