Koehl
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Alemannic variant of Kohl
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkoʊɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Koehl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 4.1Kas Kohl(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 7.2Kas Kohl
- USUnited States1 in 36Kas Kohl
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 Koehl 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 374 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 named Kohl, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kohl in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom 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)
Alemannic variant of Kohl.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Koehl 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #199 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | listed | Kohl | 180 |
| US United States | — | 9,303as Kohl | 1 in 36K | 9.3K | Kohl | 374 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,689as Kohl | 1 in 125K | 1.7K | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 40K | listed | Kohl | 61 |
| AT Austria | #409 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Kohl | 74 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Koehl | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 356as Kohl | 1 in 30K | 356 | — | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Kohl | 10 |
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; the dfa-band-5 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
- Ditmar Koelb. 1500DEnot in their usual nameGerman commander, politician and mayor of Hamburg (1500-1563)
- Carl Koehlb. 1847DEGerman physician, archaeologist, prehistorian and historian (1847-1929)
- Émile Koehlb. 1921FRFrench politician (1921–2013)
- Matt Koehlb. 1935USAmerican neo-Nazi politician and marine (1935-2014)
- M. A. R. Koehlb. 1948USAmerican marine biologist
- Michael Koehlb. 1951DEresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-8490-0505
- Dan Koehlb. 1959SESwedish zookeeper and elephant trainer of Alsatian ancestry
- Ulrike Koehlb. 1963DEresearcher
- Wade Koehlb. 1984USAmerican football player
- Patrice Koehlresearcher
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,238 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,823 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,588 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Koehl mean, and where does it come from?
- Alemannic variant of Kohl. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Koehl?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkoʊɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Koehl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Kohl in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Koehl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,303 people named Kohl in 2010, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
- How common is Koehl compared with other names?
- In Germany, Koehl is the 199th most common surname of 765,306 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/koehlThe 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, “Koehl” — the 199th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.