Kindel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. diminutive of Kind
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɪndəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kindel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Sudan than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 69K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 178K
- SDSudan≈1 in 6.4K
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.
- Sudan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 207 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sudan, est.
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)
1. diminutive of Kind. 2. altered spelling of Kiendl, a pet form of the personal name Konrad.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kindel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD Sudan | #969 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Kindel | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,872 | 1 in 178K | 1.9K | Kindel | 207 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Kindel | 66 |
| PL Poland | — | 162 | 1 in 236K | 84 | Kindel | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 134 | 1 in 1.6M | 134 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Kindel | 3 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Kindel | 2 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 43 | Kindel | 4 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the ee-stat-nimed 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)
Kindel 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 Estonian, sure, certain
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)
- George John Kindelb. 1855USAmerican politician (1855-1930)
- Manfred Kindelb. 1954DEGerman publisher and composer
- Kristiina Kindelb. 1975EEEstonian mountaineer and computer scientist (born 1975)
- Steve Kindelb. 1977CACanadian soccer player
- Marek Kindelb. 1989CZCzech soccer player
- Benjamin Kindelb. 2007CACanadian ice hockey player
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 21 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,611 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,403 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 943 | #27,133 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 134 | #50,632 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 84 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 84 | #33,931 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 78 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 78 | #36,422 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 43 | #2,329 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 30 | #3,540 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Kindel come from?
- 1. diminutive of Kind. 2. altered spelling of Kiendl, a pet form of the personal name Konrad. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kindel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɪndəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kindel mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. diminutive of Kind.
- In which country does Kindel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.2 thousand people named Kindel in the Sudan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kindel.
- How common is the name Kindel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,872 people named Kindel in 2010, about 1 in 178 thousand residents.
- How common is Kindel compared with other names?
- In the Sudan, Kindel is the 969th most common surname of 11,073 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kindelThe 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, “Kindel” — the 969th most common surname in Sudan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.