Kuschel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name kushl, a pet form of the Biblical name Yekuthiel
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkəʃəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kuschel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 352K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 442K
- USUnited States1 in 451K
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)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- 1 in 352K (inferred from the name graph)
737 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name kushl, a pet form of the Biblical name Yekuthiel.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kuschel 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 | 737 | 1 in 451K | 748 | Kuschel | 100 |
| PL Poland | 81 | 1 in 473K | 42 | Kuschel | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 29 | 1 in 352K | 29 | Kuschel | 9 |
| BR Brazil | 28 | 1 in 7.6M | 28 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 22 | 1 in 2.1M | 22 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 19 | 1 in 442K | 19 | Kuschel | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 11 | 1 in 534K | 11 | — | — |
737 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Kuschel 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, from a pet form of either of the personal names Jacob and Nicholas (see Kusch).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, variant of Kusch
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)
- Karoline Kuschelb. 1855ROactor and writer
- Walter Kuschelb. 1902DEGerman architect (1902-1981)
- Oskar Kuschb. 1918DEnot in their usual nameGerman submarine commander in World War II
- Guillermo Kuschelb. 1918CLChilean born New Zealand university teacher and entomologist
- Beverley Anne Hollowayb. 1931NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand entomologist (1931 - 2023)
- Peter Kuschelb. 1940DEGerman painter
- Karl-Josef Kuschelb. 1948DEGerman theologian
- Frank Kuschelb. 1961DEGerman politician
- Babette Kuschelb. 1965DEGerman actress
- Daniela Kuschelb. 1987DEGerman romanist
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 748 | #32,872 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 737 | #31,412 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 720 | #30,582 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 42 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 42 | #56,060 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 39 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 39 | #59,310 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 29 | #19,497 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 28 | #156,028 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 22 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 19 | #37,994 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 11 | #37,900 |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- 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
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 Kuschel mean, and where does it come from?
- 3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name kushl, a pet form of the Biblical name Yekuthiel. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kuschel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkəʃəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kuschel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 737 people named Kuschel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kuschel.
- Where is Kuschel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kuschel is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 352 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kuschel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 737 people named Kuschel in 2010, about 1 in 451 thousand 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/kuschelThe 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, “Kuschel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.