Jandl
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of the Slavic personal name Janda, or from a Germanic personal name, probably Gando, a short form of a word possibly meaning ‘magic’, or, according to Finsterwalder, from Jan, a Tyrole
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɑndɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jandl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Austria than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 9.7K
- CZCzechia1 in 32K
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.
- Austria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈920 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a pet form of the Slavic personal name Janda, or from a Germanic personal name, probably Gando, a short form of a word possibly meaning ‘magic’, or, according to Finsterwalder, from Jan, a Tyrolean family name, a short form of Johann.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jandl 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | #697 | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Jandl | 70 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Jandl | 67 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 524K | — | Jandl | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 339 | 1 in 32K | 340 | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 196 | 1 in 1.7M | 197 | Jandl | 93 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 34 | 1 in 247K | 34 | Jandl | 17 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 19 | 1 in 111K | 19 | — | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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 Jandlb. 1925ATAustrian poet, dramatic and writer (1925–2000)
- James H. Jandlb. 1925USAmerican hematologist (1925–2006)
- Hermann Jandlb. 1932ATAustrian author (1932-2017)
- Ivan Jandlb. 1937CZCzech actor (1937-1987)
- H. Ward Jandlb. 1946USarchitectural historian
- Paul Jandlb. 1962ATAustrian journalist, correspondent and literary editor
- Gerhard Jandlb. 1962ATAustrian jurist
- Martin J. Jandlb. 1969scientist
- David Jandlb. 1984ATAustrian basketball player (born 1984)
- Stephan Jandlb. 1988ATAustrian handball 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 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 340 | #4,048 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 339 | #4,808 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 197 | #98,501 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 196 | #93,513 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 178 | #95,091 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 34 | #24,910 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 19 | #13,947 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Jandl mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the Slavic personal name Janda, or from a Germanic personal name, probably Gando, a short form of a word possibly meaning ‘magic’, or, according to Finsterwalder, from Jan, a Tyrole… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Jandl?
- A machine transcription gives /hɑndɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jandl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 916 people named Jandl in Austria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jandl.
- How common is the name Jandl?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 339 people named Jandl, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
- How common is Jandl compared with other names?
- In Austria, Jandl is the 697th most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jandlThe 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, “Jandl” — the 697th most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.