Kiefel
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kifəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kiefel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 505Kas Kifel
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 628Kas Кифель
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 Kiefel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8M (inferred from the name graph)
186 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Кифель in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Кіфель in UA Ukraine.
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 in the world(measured from records)
Kiefel 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 | 186 | 1 in 1.8M | 239 | — | 4 |
| RU Russia | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Кифель | 62 |
| AR Argentina | 90as Kifel | 1 in 505K | 90 | — | — |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 628K | — | Кифель | 13 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 4.5M | — | Кіфель | 10 |
| CH Switzerland | 3as Kifel | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
186 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)
- Josef Kiefelb. 1909DEGerman resistance member (1909–1988)
- Russell Kiefelb. 1951AUAustralian actor
- Susan Kiefelb. 1954AUAustralian judge; Chief Justice of Australia
- Martin Kiefelb. 1984CHPh.D. ETH Zürich 2017
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 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 239 | #84,529 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 201 | #86,341 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 186 | #97,671 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 48 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- How do you pronounce Kiefel?
- A machine transcription gives /kifəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kiefel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 186 people named Kiefel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kiefel most common?
- Kiefel is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.8 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kiefel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 186 people named Kiefel in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kiefel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kiefelThe 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, “Kiefel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.