Kuhle
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from dialect küle/kaule 'pit, hollow'; also via place- or nickname forms
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkuəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kuhle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 85K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 906K
- DKDenmark1 in 140K
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 Kuhle 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
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 85K (inferred from the name graph)
≈950 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kuehle in ML Mali.
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 dialect küle/kaule 'pit, hollow'; also via place- or nickname forms
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kuhle 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 | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 85K | listed | Kuhle | 71 |
| US United States | 367 | 1 in 906K | 391 | Kuhle | 141 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 160K | — | Kuhle | 29 |
| ML Mali | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Kuehle | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Kuhle | 31 |
| DK Denmark | 42 | 1 in 140K | 42 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 24 | 1 in 228K | 24 | — | 4 |
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; the dfa-band-4 register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Kuhle 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.
In German, hollow (lowered area on a surface)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
It is beautiful.
as a nameThe African book of 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)
- Wolfgang Kuhleb. 1935DEGerman sculptor
- Matthias Kuhleb. 1948DEGerman geographer (1948-2015)
- Bernd Kuhleb. 1959DEPh.D. Ruhr-Universität Bochum 1988
- Rebecca Kuhleb. 1983DEGerman association football player
- Maximilian Kuhleb. 1991DEGerman basketball player (born 1991)
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 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 391 | #56,436 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 369 | #52,714 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 367 | #55,841 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 24 | #39,671 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 4 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Kuhle mean, and where does it come from?
- from dialect küle/kaule 'pit, hollow'; also via place- or nickname forms Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Kuhle?
- In the etymology graph, Куль and Kuil are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Kuhle?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkuəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kuhle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 948 people named Kuhle in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kuhle.
- How common is the name Kuhle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 367 people named Kuhle in 2010, about 1 in 906 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kuhleThe 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, “Kuhle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.