Korbel

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Korbel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Czech; metonymic occupational name for a maker of drinking vessels, from korbel ‘tankard’.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 11K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 30K
  • SKSlovakia1 in 35K

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.

Poland (measured from records)

1,290 people, 2026

Sources
53 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Czech; metonymic occupational name for a maker of drinking vessels, from korbel ‘tankard’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

How Korbel is read(measured from records)

Korbel is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English68%

    champagne winery, CA

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • German11%

    zu Korb; b/f/v/w-Variation, sonst verstreut; Schwerpunkt NRW. Bearer count: 200+.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

  • Polish5.3%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Korbel in Polish.

  • Czech5.2%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Korbel in Czech.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Korbel 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.

Where Korbel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland—1,2901 in 30K647Korbel53
CZ Czechia#8859551 in 11K956Korbel50
US United States—7941 in 419K794Korbel18
SK Slovakia—1541 in 35K154Korbel23
GB United Kingdom—≈100 est.≈1 in 630K—Korbel10

1,290 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Korbel is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Koerbel, Körbel, Korbèl, Köerbel, Koeerbel

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Körbel

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Körbel

  • Croatian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States

    Also written Körbel

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, United States

    Also written Körbel

  • Norwegian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Körbel

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Korbel is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Czech; metonymic occupational name for a maker of drinking vessels, from korbel ‘tankard’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • from Korbel, a diminutive of Korb ‘basket’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

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)

1850190019502000Mario Korbel, b. 1882Josef Korbel, b. 1909Kazimierz Korbel, b. 1927Madeleine Albright, b. 1937Janusz Korbel, b. 1946Petr Korbel, b. 1971Károly Korbel, b. 1971Jan Korbel, b. 1975

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 19 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Korbel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—956#1,409
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—955#1,428
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010794#29,661
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000786#28,548
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020773#32,001
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026647—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—647#4,963
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026643—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—643#4,910
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)1995154—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

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 Korbel mean, and where does it come from?
Czech; metonymic occupational name for a maker of drinking vessels, from korbel ‘tankard’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Korbel have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Korbel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled korbel.
Where is Korbel most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Korbel is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Korbel?
In Poland, the national register counted 1,290 people named Korbel in 2026, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
How common is Korbel compared with other names?
In Czechia, Korbel is the 885th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Korbel” — the 885th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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