Kaule
surname · Latin script
Meaning: alternative form of Kuhle
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
/ˈkaʊ̯lə/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Kaule is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 309K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 1.8M
- BRBrazil1 in 2.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- 1 in 309K (inferred from the name graph)
99 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)alternative form of Kuhle
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kaule 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.
99 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)Kaule 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.
In Latvian, Kaulu muiža, kas atradās Valkas apriņķa Annas pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Otto Kauleb. 1870DE1870-1948, German landscape painter and ex-libris artist
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 99 | #63,821 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 39 | #52,026 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 19 | #24,830 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 6 | #109,410 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Kaule mean, and where does it come from?
- alternative form of Kuhle Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kaule?
- It depends on the language: in German /ˈkaʊ̯lə/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /kawle/; in Swahili /kaule/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Kaule have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 99 people named Kaule, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kaule most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kaule is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 309 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kaule?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 99 people named Kaule, about 1 in 2.1 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/kauleThe 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, “Kaule”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.