Jekel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Yiddish personal name Yekl, a pet form of Jacob (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Jekel is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
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)from the Yiddish personal name Yekl, a pet form of Jacob.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
How Jekel is read
(measured from records)Jekel is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English59%
From Yiddish Yekl, a pet-form of Jacob.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- German23%
from Jacobus
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jekel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 371 | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 331 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 88 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 67 | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 15 | — |
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 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)Jekel is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from the Yiddish personal name Yekl, a pet form of Jacob.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)- Henri Jekelb. 1816FRFrench entomologist (1816-1891)
- Tatiana Iekelb. 1932ROnot in their usual nameRomanian actress (1932-2017)
- Diederik Jekelb. 1984NLDutch journalist and television presenter
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jekel mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Yiddish personal name Yekl, a pet form of Jacob. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Jekel have the most bearers?
- Jekel is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Jekel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jekelThe 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, “Jekel” — ranked 52500th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.