Holzapfel

Locally spelled Holzaepfel in AU Australia.

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.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Holzapfel is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Chile, United States, Brazil, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Hölzápfél

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Holzäpfel

• Czech surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia, United States, Poland

  Languages: Czech, Polish

  Also written Holzäpfel

• Italian surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Holzäpfel

34 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.

Holzapfel 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.

• In German, lived by a crab-apple tree or nickname for someone with a sour temperament, from Ger. Holzapfel crab-apple (liter¬ ally ‘wood-apple’; cf. Holt and Apple). Cogn.: Low Ger.: Holtappel.

  as a name·A dictionary of surnames

• In German, from Middle High German holzapfel ‘crab apple’, a topographic name for someone who lived by a crab apple tree or perhaps a nickname for someone with a sour disposition.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In German, crabapple (tree)

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

• In German, Wohnstätten-/Herkunftssurname zu mhd. apfel; in diesem Band mit Konsonantenvariation (tz in wenigen Varianten). 2776 Belege.

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

• In German, Toponymic surname in this band; 2776 bearers. Source text adds: wohl ÜberN für einen herben, mürrischen Menschen.

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

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.

• Nikolaus Holzapfelb. 1847DEGerman politician and farmer (1847-1920)
• Rudolf Maria Holzapfelb. 1874ATAustrian philosopher
• Friedrich Holzapfelb. 1900DEGerman politician (1900-1969)
• Rolf-Peter Holzapfelb. 1942DEGerman mathematician (1942–2024)
• Hartmut Holzapfelb. 1944DEGerman politician (1944–2022)
• Elke Holzapfelb. 1945DEGerman politician
• Helmut Holzapfelb. 1950DEGerman academic
• Consuelo Holzapfelb. 1956CLChilean actor
• Brigitte Holzapfelb. 1958DEGerman athlete
• Manuela Magerb. 1962DEnot in their usual nameEast German pair skater

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).

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

What does the name Holzapfel mean, and where does it come from?

from a plant nickname; 'crabapple' or 'wild apple' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.

How do you pronounce Holzapfel?

A machine transcription gives /hɔltsapfəl/ (IPA) for German.

In which country does Holzapfel have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 6.2 thousand people named Holzapfel in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled holzapfel.

How common is the name Holzapfel?

In the United States, the national register counted 989 people named Holzapfel in 2010, about 1 in 336 thousand residents.