Mielke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of a Slavic compound personal name with the first element Milo-, from mil ‘favor’, ‘grace’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mielke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 7.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 50K
- USUnited States1 in 61K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 304 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
from a pet form of a Slavic compound personal name with the first element Milo-, from mil ‘favor’, ‘grace’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mielke 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 | #591 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | listed | Mielke | 148 |
| US United States | — | 5,482 | 1 in 61K | 5.5K | Mielke | 304 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Mielke | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,408 | 1 in 150K | 1.4K | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Mielke | 71 |
| PL Poland | — | 692 | 1 in 55K | 352 | Mielke | 1 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Mielke | 3 |
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; the dfa-band-3 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Mielke is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Patronymische Form auf -ke nach l; zu slawischen Rufnamen mit urslaw. *milь 'lieb, teuer'. 5284 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Patronymische Familiennamen auf -ke/-ke-Varianten; slawisch geprägte Diminutivbildung.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, zu Milo/slav?; hier patronymisch zu einem Rufnamen mit -o/-slav-Ansatz
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
from a pet form of Miele 3.
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)
- Erich Mielkeb. 1907DEGerman politician (1907-2000)
- Günter Mielkeb. 1942DEGerman distance runner
- Rüdiger Mielkeb. 1944DEGerman association football player (1944–2021)
- Angelika Mielke-Westerlageb. 1955DEGerman politician
- Alexander Mielkeb. 1958DEGerman mathematician
- Jörg Mielkeb. 1959DEGerman politician and jurist
- Gary Mielkeb. 1963USAmerican baseball player
- Volker Mielkeb. 1968DEbadminton player and veterinarian
- Marcus Mielkeb. 1975DEGerman rower
- Anders Mielkeb. 1998DKDanish cyclist and sport journalist
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 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.5K | #6,235 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.4K | #5,848 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.3K | #6,189 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.4K | #6,734 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 352 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 352 | #9,412 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 340 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 340 | #9,579 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 3 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Mielke mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of a Slavic compound personal name with the first element Milo-, from mil ‘favor’, ‘grace’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Mielke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Mielke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mielke.
- How common is the name Mielke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,482 people named Mielke in 2010, about 1 in 61 thousand residents.
- How common is Mielke compared with other names?
- In Germany, Mielke is the 591st most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mielkeThe 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, “Mielke” — the 591st most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.