Langel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the nickname Langel ‘the tall one’, a diminutive of Lang (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Langel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,108 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 37K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 56K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 78K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 191 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
1,108 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from the nickname Langel ‘the tall one’, a diminutive of Lang.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Langel is found
(measured from records)Langel 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 | 1,108 | 1 in 300K | 1.3K | Langel | 191 |
| DE Germany | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Langel | 64 |
| CH Switzerland | 225 | 1 in 37K | 225 | Langel | 11 |
| FR France | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 310K | 35 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 539K | — | Langel | 9 |
| CR Costa Rica | 91 | 1 in 56K | 91 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 10 | — | 4 |
| BZ Belize | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Langel | 1 |
1,108 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)Langel 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.
habitational name from any of several places called Langel.
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)- Auguste Langelb. 1796CH(1796-1844)
- René Langelb. 1924CHSwiss journalist
- Ülo Langelb. 1951EEEstonian biochemist (born 1951)
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Langel mean, and where does it come from?
- from the nickname Langel ‘the tall one’, a diminutive of Lang. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Langel?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Langel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled langel. After it come Germany, Switzerland, France and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Langel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Langel is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 37 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Langel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,108 people named Langel in 2010, about 1 in 300 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/langelThe 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, “Langel” — ranked 19775th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.