Meisels
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmaɪsəɫz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meisels is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: patronymic from Meisel.
- USUnited States1 in 286K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael1 in 30Kas מייזלס
- RORomania≈1 in 64K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Meisels itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)
1,164 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled מייזלס in IL Israel, LB Lebanon, HU Hungary and מייזליש in UZ Uzbekistan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
patronymic from Meisel.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meisels 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 | 1,164 | 1 in 286K | 1.6K | Meisels | 143 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | מייזליש | 2 |
| RO Romania | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Meisels | 2 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 698K | — | Meisels | 1 |
| IL Israel | 288as מייזלס | 1 in 30K | 288 | מייזלס | 20 |
| HU Hungary | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 218K | — | מייזלס | 3 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 193K | — | מייזלס | 1 |
1,164 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Benjamin Meiselsb. 1856PLHolocaust victim (born 1856)
- Ester Meiselsb. 1868PLholocaust victim, b. 1868-07-27
- Benno Georg Meiselsb. 1875ROAustrian opinion journalist, writer and editor
- Dubianka Breitenfeldb. 1875DEnot in their usual nameHolocaust victim (born 1875)
- Samuel Meiselsb. 1877PLAustrian Jewish writer and translator (1877-murdered about 1942 )
- Abisch Meiselsb. 1893GBBritish author (1893-1959)
- Wojciech Meiselsb. 1894PLPolish Romance philologist (1894-1969)
- Ernö Meiselsb. 1924HUHolocaust victim (born 1924)
- Alexandre Meiselsb. 1926DEphysician and university professor
- Tamar Meiselsb. 1969ILIsraeli political scientist
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 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,313 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #22,183 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 725 | #30,412 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Meisels mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from Meisel. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Meisels?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmaɪsəɫz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Meisels have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Meisels, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meisels.
- How common is the name Meisels?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,164 people named Meisels in 2010, about 1 in 286 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meiselsThe 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, “Meisels”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.