Kubel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: small pigsty; closed feeder for fattening pigs
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kubɛɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kubel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 190K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.4Mas Kuebel
- DKDenmark1 in 38K
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 Kubel 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- 1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 named Kuebel, est.
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kuebel in US United States, JM Jamaica, CN China and Kübel in DE Germany.
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)
small pigsty; closed feeder for fattening pigs
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kubel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Kuebel | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 190K | — | Kübel | 49 |
| US United States | — | 239as Kuebel | 1 in 1.4M | 257 | Kuebel | 109 |
| PL Poland | — | 227 | 1 in 169K | 116 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 156 | 1 in 38K | 156 | — | — |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Kubel | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Kuebel | 1 |
| PN Pitcairn Islands | #353 | — | — | — | Kubel | 1 |
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 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kubel 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, blister (sudden onset of a small local swelling, a bump on the skin)
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)
- Otto Kubelb. 1868DEGerman painter
- Alfred Kubelb. 1909DEGerman politician (1909-1999)
- Wilhelm Kubelb. 1917PLGerman officer and Knight's Cross recipient
- Juliusz Kubelb. 1949PLPolish theatre director
- Pierre Kubelb. 1955FRFrench film producer
- Jason Kubelb. 1982USAmerican baseball player
- Nicolas Aubé-Kubelb. 1996CACanadian 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 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 189 | #96,368 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 169 | #99,214 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 156 | #3,394 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 154 | #119,015 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 116 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 116 | #26,584 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 111 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 111 | #27,165 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Kubel mean, and where does it come from?
- small pigsty; closed feeder for fattening pigs Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kubel?
- A machine transcription gives /kubɛɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kubel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Kuebel in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kubel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kubel is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kubel?
- In Poland, the national register counted 227 people named Kubel in 2026, about 1 in 169 thousand residents.
- How common is Kubel compared with other names?
- In Pitcairn Islands, Kubel is the 353rd most common surname of 382 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kubel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kubelThe 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, “Kubel” — the 353rd most common surname in Pitcairn Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.