Mantel
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Also Mantell: maker of cloaks/coats, or nickname for one who wore such a garment; Jewish surname from German/Yiddish words for 'coat'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mæntəl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mantel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 36K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 14K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 34K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 216 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Also Mantell: maker of cloaks/coats, or nickname for one who wore such a garment; Jewish surname from German/Yiddish words for 'coat'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
How Mantel is read(measured from records)
Mantel is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English46%
Also Mantell: maker of cloaks/coats, or nickname for one who wore such a garment; Jewish surname from German/Yiddish words for 'coat'.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
from OFr mantel ‘cloak, mantle’, a nickname or trade-name; first attested Turstinus Mantel 1086 DB (Bk).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- French21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mantel in French.
- German16%
from the noun Mantel 'coat'; also used for names from Bavarian Mantel 'fir' or from place names
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Spanish9.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mantel in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mantel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 363K | — | Mantel | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Mantel | 93 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Mantel | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,272 | 1 in 14K | 1.3K | Mantel | 44 |
| FR France | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 175 | — | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 247 | 1 in 34K | 247 | Mantel | 26 |
| UY Uruguay | 36 | 1 in 94K | 36 | — | — |
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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Mantel is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
metonymic occupational name for a cloak maker or a nickname for someone who wore a cloak of a particularly conspicuous design, from Anglo-Norman, Middle High German, Old French, and Middle Dutch mantel ‘cloak’, ‘coat’ (Late Latin mantellus).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
probably from German Mantel or Yiddish mantl ‘coat’, which are related to 1 above.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
topographic name from Middle High German mantel ‘Scots pine’.
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)
- Ernst Mantelb. 1897DEGerman judge (1897-1971)
- Kurt Mantelb. 1905DEGerman economist and historian (1905-1982)
- Hugo Mantelb. 1907DEGerman footballer (1907-1942)
- Nathan Mantelb. 1919USAmerican statistician (1919–2002)
- Gerhard Mantelb. 1930DEGerman musician
- Bronwen Mantelb. 1950CACanadian actress
- Hilary Mantelb. 1952GBBritish writer (1952–2022)
- Henriette Mantelb. 1958USAmerican actress
- Dorothee Bärb. 1978DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician
- Dave Mantelb. 1981NLDutch actor (1981–2018)
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 29 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.3K | #1,266 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 247 | #5,227 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 220 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 203 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 189 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 182 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 177 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 175 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 165 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 132 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 117 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 108 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Mantel mean, and where does it come from?
- Also Mantell: maker of cloaks/coats, or nickname for one who wore such a garment; Jewish surname from German/Yiddish words for 'coat'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Mantel?
- A machine transcription gives /mæntəl/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mantel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Mantel in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mantel.
- Where is Mantel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mantel is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mantel?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,272 people named Mantel in 2007, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mantelThe 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, “Mantel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.