Kegel
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Alternative letter-case form of kegel
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɛdʒəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kegel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 50K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 90K
- PLPoland1 in 169K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- 1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
941 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Mentioned cross-reference only; etymology not given on this page.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kegel is read(measured from records)
Kegel is one spelling over 3 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%
Alternative letter-case form of kegel.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German28%
Mentioned cross-reference only; etymology not given on this page.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
from Middle High German kegel ‘skittle’, ‘pin’, hence a nickname for an inveterate skittles or bowls player. The term also denoted an illegitimate child (hence the phrase (still current) mit Kind und Kegel ‘with all the family’) and in early New High German (15th century) took on the meaning ‘uncouth person’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
skittle, ninepin, bowling pin; pin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Übername zu mhd./mnd. kegel 'Kegel, Knüppel; uneheliches Kind', v.a. 'ungeformter, grober Mensch'; evtl. auch Berufsname für Kegelspieler; 1378 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
- Spanish6.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kegel in Spanish.
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)
Kegel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 941 | 1 in 353K | 941 | Kegel | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | 343 | 1 in 50K | 343 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 226 | 1 in 169K | 122 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 65 | 1 in 90K | 65 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 63 | 1 in 722K | 63 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 45 | 1 in 187K | 45 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | 1 |
941 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Kegel 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 Dutch, cone
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegelb. 1784DEGerman academic (1784-1863)
- Karl Kegelb. 1876DEGerman university teacher (1876-1959)
- Sturm Kegelb. 1892DEGerman architect
- Arnold Kegelb. 1894USAmerican gynecologist (1894–1972)
- Gerhard Kegelb. 1907DEGerman politician and jurist (1907-1989)
- Gerhard Kegelb. 1912DEGerman legal scholar (1912-2006)
- Herbert Kegelb. 1920DEGerman conductor (1920–1990)
- Heinz Kegelb. 1921DEGerman politician (1921-2003)
- Marian Kegelb. 1945PLPolish cyclist
- Oliver Kegelb. 1961DEGerman sprint canoeist
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 29 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 941 | #26,042 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 931 | #25,028 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 919 | #27,762 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 343 | #5,915 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 122 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 122 | #25,509 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 104 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 104 | #28,595 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 65 | #8,319 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 63 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 45 | #20,234 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #36,141 |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- Where does the name Kegel come from?
- Mentioned cross-reference only; etymology not given on this page. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- What are other forms of the name Kegel?
- In the etymology graph, Kugel, Quille and Bengel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Kegel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɛdʒəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kegel mean?
- In English, Alternative letter-case form of kegel.
- In which country does Kegel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 941 people named Kegel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kegel.
- Where is Kegel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kegel is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 50 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kegel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 941 people named Kegel in 2010, about 1 in 353 thousand 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/kegelThe 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, “Kegel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.