Meissel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of Meißel
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
Meissel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 450K(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 535K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 630Kfew records
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 Meissel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 80 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 446K (inferred from the name graph)
≈190 named Meißel, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Meißel in DE Germany.
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)Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of Meißel
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Meissel is found
(measured from records)Meissel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 433K | — | Meißel | 40 |
| FR France | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 446K | 14 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | listed | Meissel | 80 |
| AU Australia | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 627K | — | Meissel | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Meissel | 19 |
| CZ Czechia | 20 | 1 in 535K | 20 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Meissel | 9 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; MVČR — living population register 2017; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)- Ernst Meisselb. 1826DEGerman astronomer (1826-1895)
- Brigitte Meisselb. 1936DEwriter, librarian and editor
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Meissel mean, and where does it come from?
- Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of Meißel Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Meissel?
- Mondonomo estimates about 193 people named Meißel in Germany, more than in any other country we hold. After it come France, United States, Australia and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Meissel?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 20 people named Meissel, about 1 in 535 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Meissel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meisselThe 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, “Meissel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.