Kachel
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: 'earthenware'; in older usage also 'crow'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkækəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kachel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 61K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 502K
- PLPoland1 in 18K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 197 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
2,155 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
'earthenware'; in older usage also 'crow'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kachel is read(measured from records)
Kachel is one spelling over 4 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.
- English52%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kachel in English.
- Hindi16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kachel in Hindi.
- German15%
'earthenware'; in older usage also 'crow'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
tile (on walls or floors or stovetops, not roof tile)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Berufsname zu mhd. kacheler/kecheler 'Töpfer'; Kachel ursprünglich 'irdenes Gefäß'. Bearer counts: Kachler 105; Kächler 57; Kechler 24; Kachelmann 37; Kachel 579.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Berufsname zu Kachel/Kachl 'Töpfer, Tonverarbeiter'; auch als Übername möglich. Bearer count: 13.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
- Polish5.9%
alternative form of piec
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
Kachel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 2,155 | 1 in 18K | 1.1K | Kachel | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Kachel | 91 |
| US United States | — | 663 | 1 in 502K | 746 | Kachel | 197 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Kachel | 63 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 394K | 20 | Kachel | 25 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Kachel | 2 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 203K | — | Kachel | 1 |
| SH St. Helena | #940 | — | — | — | Kachel | 1 |
2,155 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
Kachel 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.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic); metonymic occupational name for a potter, from Middle High German kachel ‘pot’, ‘earthenware vessel’. The surname is common in the Alemannic and Swabian regions. The modem German sense ‘glazed tile’ is a fairly recent development, and probably has not contributed to the surname. Compare Euler, Hafner, and Topfer (see Toepfer).
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)
- Ludwig Kachelb. 1830DEGerman painter (1830–1858)
- Louise Kachel-Benderb. 1847DEactor and stage actor (1847-1916)
- Alois Kachelb. 1848DEmayor
- Józef Kachelb. 1913PLPolish politician
- Jaroslav Kachelb. 1932CZCzechoslovak singer (1932-2007)
- Bianka Kachelb. 1944DEGerman politician
- Chris Kachelb. 1955AUAustralian tennis player
- Steffen Kachelb. 1965DEGerman politician and historian
- Guilherme Fiori Kachelb. 1991BRBrazilian volleyball player
- Maria Kotowska-KachelPLPolish literary historian
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 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.1K | #2,838 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.1K | #2,807 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 746 | #32,948 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 663 | #34,223 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 604 | #35,288 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 20 | #90,540 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Kachel mean, and where does it come from?
- 'earthenware'; in older usage also 'crow' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Kachel?
- In the etymology graph, Плита is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Kachel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkækəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kachel have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Kachel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kachel.
- Where is Kachel most common?
- Kachel is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 18 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kachel?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,155 people named Kachel in 2026, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Kachel compared with other names?
- In St. Helena, Kachel is the 940th most common surname of 3,440 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kachelThe 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, “Kachel” — the 940th most common surname in St. Helena. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.