Mangel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from German Mangel ‘privation’, ‘need’, a nickname or one of surnames selected at random from vocabulary words by government officials when surnames were made compulsory
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mangel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 526K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 16K
- FRFrance≈1 in 75K
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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mängel in EE Estonia.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from German Mangel ‘privation’, ‘need’, a nickname or one of surnames selected at random from vocabulary words by government officials when surnames were made compulsory.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mangel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Mangel | 8 |
| FR France | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 75K | 136 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 632 | 1 in 526K | 688 | Mangel | 204 |
| DE Germany | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 188K | — | Mangel | 56 |
| IT Italy | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 539K | — | Mangel | 2 |
| EE Estonia | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | Mängel | 8 |
| SG Singapore | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Mangel | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 43 | 1 in 119K | 43 | — | — |
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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Mangel is also recorded in 5 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 reduced form of the Germanic personal name Managwald (see Mangold). This name is also established in Greece.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, lack, shortage, defect
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In Swedish, a mangle, a wringer (laundry pressing machine)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, lack, want, absence
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a lack or shortage
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Emmanuel Mangel du Mesnilb. 1815FRFrench diplomat (1815–1890)
- Emile Mangel du Mesnilb. 1815FRFrench photographer
- Marcel Marceaub. 1923FRnot in their usual nameFrench actor and mime artist (1923–2007)
- Marc Mangelb. 1951CAapplied mathematician
- Joël Mangelb. 1955FRFrench politician
- Laurent Mangelb. 1981FRRoad racing cyclist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 688 | #35,272 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 656 | #32,939 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 632 | #35,582 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 187 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 166 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 150 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 139 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 136 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 118 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 114 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 104 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 71 | — |
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 Mangel mean, and where does it come from?
- from German Mangel ‘privation’, ‘need’, a nickname or one of surnames selected at random from vocabulary words by government officials when surnames were made compulsory. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Mangel?
- In the etymology graph, Manque is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mangel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Mangel in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mangel.
- How common is the name Mangel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 632 people named Mangel in 2010, about 1 in 526 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mangelThe 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, “Mangel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.