Kerpel
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: CBG Familienamenbank, 2007
/kɛɾpɛl/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Kerpel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 82K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 1M
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kerpel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- 1 in 82K (inferred from the name graph)
456 named Karpel, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Karpel in US United States, NL Netherlands, NZ New Zealand and 1 more and קרפל in IL Israel, PL Poland.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Kerpel is found
(measured from records)Kerpel 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 | 456as Karpel | 1 in 729K | 474 | Karpel | 168 |
| IL Israel | 293as קרפל | 1 in 30K | 293 | קרפל | 19 |
| NL Netherlands | 211 | 1 in 82K | 211 | Karpel | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 209 | 1 in 1M | 209 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 129as Krepel | 1 in 297K | 65 | קרפל | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 275K | — | Karpel | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 293K | — | Karpel | 1 |
456 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)- Lipót Kerpelb. 1818HUpainter (1818-1880)
- Jenő Kerpelb. 1896HUHungarian lawyer, journalist and writer
- Aníbal Kerpelb. 1901ARmusical 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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kerpel?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /kɛɾpɛl/; in Dutch /kərpəl/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kerpel?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 456 people named Karpel, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Israel, Netherlands, Brazil and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kerpel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kerpel is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 82 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kerpel?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 211 people named Kerpel in 2007, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kerpel?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kerpelThe 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, “Kerpel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.