Kuhel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: apparently a nickname or occupational name from the dialect word kuhelj, denoting a kind of doughnut
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kuhɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kuhel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 9.6M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3M (inferred from the name graph)
261 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
apparently a nickname or occupational name from the dialect word kuhelj, denoting a kind of doughnut.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kuhel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 261 | 1 in 1.3M | 269 | — | 5 |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 2 | — | — |
| IN India | — | — | — | Kuhel | 1 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | — | — | Kuhel | 3 |
| EE Estonia | — | — | listed | — | — |
261 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mirko Kuhelb. 1904USAmerican writer
- Joe Kuhelb. 1906USAmerican baseball 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 10 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 269 | #76,963 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 261 | #74,141 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 238 | #75,466 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #350,634 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #354,744 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Kuhel mean, and where does it come from?
- apparently a nickname or occupational name from the dialect word kuhelj, denoting a kind of doughnut. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kuhel?
- A machine transcription gives /kuhɛl/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kuhel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 261 people named Kuhel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kuhel most common?
- Kuhel is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kuhel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 261 people named Kuhel in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kuhelThe 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, “Kuhel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.