Jehl
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʒl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jehl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of German Jehle.
- FRFrance≈1 in 40K(inferred from the name graph)
- BFBurkina Faso≈1 in 29K
- DKDenmark1 in 534K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Burkina Faso, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of German Jehle.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jehl 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 234 | Jehl | 179 |
| BF Burkina Faso | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Jehl | 1 |
| US United States | 232 | 1 in 1.4M | 256 | Jehl | 16 |
| ES Spain | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Jehl | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 11 | 1 in 534K | 11 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | — | 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Ignace Jehlb. 1799FRFrench politician
- Francis Jehlb. 1860US(1860-1941) American inventor, laboratory assistant of Thomas Edison
- François Jehlb. 1953FRFrench politician
- Alex Jehlb. 1962FRFrench politician
- Géraldine Jehl-Loewenguthb. 1964FRFrench racing cyclist
- Pascal Jehlb. 1965FRFrench rugby union player
- Laurent Jehlb. 1976FRFrench politician
- François JehlFRFrench bacteriologist and microbiologist
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 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 299 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 275 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 256 | #80,054 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 254 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 247 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 244 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 237 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 234 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 232 | #81,458 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 231 | #77,222 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 223 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 168 | — |
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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Jehl mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of German Jehle. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Jehl?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒl/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Jehl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Jehl in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jehl.
- How common is the name Jehl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 232 people named Jehl in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 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/jehlThe 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, “Jehl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.