Koebel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of the personal name Jakob (see Jacob)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Koebel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 140Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 590Kfew records
- CHSwitzerland1 in 5.9Kas Kobel
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 Koebel 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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
1,418 named Kobel, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Barbados, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kobel in US United States, DE Germany, CH Switzerland and 2 more.
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)from a pet form of the personal name Jakob (see Jacob).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Koebel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #674 | 1,418as Kobel | 1 in 5.9K | 1.4K | Kobel | 43 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Kobel | 78 |
| US United States | — | 870as Kobel | 1 in 382K | 957 | Kobel | 189 |
| PL Poland | — | 679as Kobel | 1 in 56K | 345 | Kobel | 1 |
| FR France | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 176K | 52 | Koebel | 3 |
| OM Oman | — | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Kobel | 3 |
| BB Barbados | #636 | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Koebel | 2 |
1,418 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)- Eberhard Koebelb. 1907DEGerman writer (1907-1955)
- Inés Koebelb. 1949DEGerman literary translator and editor (born 1949)
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 809 | #30,813 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 741 | #31,285 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 674 | #32,227 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 89 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 89 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 71 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 67 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 59 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 56 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 52 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 52 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 48 | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Koebel mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the personal name Jakob (see Jacob). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Koebel have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Kobel, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Koebel?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,418 people named Kobel in 2024, about 1 in 5.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Koebel compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Koebel is the 674th most common surname of 127,759 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/koebelThe 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, “Koebel” — the 674th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.