Hodel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Berufsname: Kleinhandel treiben; bearer count 204
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhoʊdəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hodel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 299K(measured from records)
- HTHaiti≈1 in 2.8K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 3.3K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Haiti, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Berufsname: Kleinhandel treiben; bearer count 204.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hodel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Hodel | 2 |
| HT Haiti | #106 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Hodel | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | #349 | 2,534 | 1 in 3.3K | 2.5K | Hodel | 70 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Hodel | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,112 | 1 in 299K | 1.1K | Hodel | 202 |
| LY Libya | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Hodel | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 68 | 1 in 50K | 68 | Hodel | 8 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Ernst Hodel juniorb. 1881CHSwiss painter (1881-1955)
- George Hill Hodelb. 1907USUS physician, suspected murderer
- Donald P. Hodelb. 1935USAmerican government official
- Roland Hodelb. 1943FRFrench official
- Fauna Hodelb. 1951USAmerican author
- Robert Hodelb. 1959CHSwiss slavicist
- Ursula Hodelb. 1960CHSwiss performance artist (born 1960)
- Marc Hodelb. 1970CHSwiss association football player
- Nathan Hodelb. 1977USplayer of American football
- Ronny Hodelb. 1982CHSwiss footballer
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 26 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 2.5K | #344 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,389 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #22,989 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,065 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 68 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- How do you pronounce Hodel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhoʊdəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Hodel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Berufsname: Kleinhandel treiben; bearer count 204.
- What are other forms of the name Hodel?
- In the etymology graph, Dassah is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Hodel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Hodel in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hodel.
- How common is the name Hodel?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 2,534 people named Hodel in 2024, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Hodel compared with other names?
- In Haiti, Hodel is the 106th most common surname of 1,519 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hodel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hodelThe 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, “Hodel” — the 106th most common surname in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.