Lobel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname for a deceitful individual or for a flatterer, from a diminutive of Old French lobe ‘flattery’ (of Germanic origin; compare Old High German lob ‘praise’) (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/loβel/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Lobel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,068 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- FRFrance≈1 in 130K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 230K
- BEBelgium1 in 249K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 227 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
1,068 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Lobel
- Spanish:/loβel/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)nickname for a deceitful individual or for a flatterer, from a diminutive of Old French lobe ‘flattery’ (of Germanic origin; compare Old High German lob ‘praise’).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Lobel is found
(measured from records)Lobel 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 | 1,068 | 1 in 311K | 1.1K | Lobel | 227 |
| FR France | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 131K | 58 | — | 2 |
| GH Ghana | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Lobel | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 429K | — | Lobel | 60 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 405K | — | Lobel | 16 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Lobel | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 75 | 1 in 230K | 75 | Lobel | 9 |
| BE Belgium | 47 | 1 in 249K | 47 | Lobel | 13 |
1,068 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)Lobel 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.
of uncertain origin; perhaps a pseudoGermanized form of the Yiddish personal name Leybl, a pet form of Leyb (see Leib).
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)- Arnold Lobelb. 1933USAmerican children's illustrator and writer (1933-1987)
- Anita Lobelb. 1934PLAmerican children's illustrator and writer
- Mike Lobelb. 1984CACanadian actor
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lobel mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for a deceitful individual or for a flatterer, from a diminutive of Old French lobe ‘flattery’ (of Germanic origin; compare Old High German lob ‘praise’). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lobel?
- In Spanish /loβel/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lobel?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Lobel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lobel. After it come France, Ghana, United Kingdom and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Lobel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,068 people named Lobel in 2010, about 1 in 311 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/lobelThe 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, “Lobel” — ranked 23714th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.