Mittel
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Synonym of English (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/mittɛl/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Mittel is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
How to pronounce Mittel
- Spanish:/mittɛl/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)literally ‘middle’, probably a topographic name from a farm occupying a middle position in a settlement. Compare Mitter.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mittel is read
(measured from records)Mittel is one spelling over 3 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.
- English71%
Synonym of English.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German10%
literally ‘middle’, probably a topographic name from a farm occupying a middle position in a settlement. Compare Mitter.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
means
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
agent, appliance
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Toponymischer Wohnstättenname: Simplizium zu „Mitte/mitten“, wohl für eine zentrale Lage; Bearer count 77.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
- Spanish5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mittel 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Mittel come from?
- literally ‘middle’, probably a topographic name from a farm occupying a middle position in a settlement. Compare Mitter. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Mittel?
- In the etymology graph, Mittler and Middel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Mittel?
- In Spanish /mittɛl/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Mittel mean?
- In English, Synonym of English.
- In which country does Mittel have the most bearers?
- Mittel is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mittelThe 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, “Mittel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.