Modl
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/motl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Modl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 178K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.7M
- ATAustria≈1 in 53K
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)
- Record sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 53K (inferred from the name graph)
≈450 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Modl 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 | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 178K | — | Modl | 56 |
| AT Austria | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Modl | 31 |
| US United States | 124 | 1 in 2.7M | 132 | Modl | 68 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 5.3M | — | Modl | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 33 | 1 in 324K | 34 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Modl | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Modl | 5 |
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; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end). 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)- Alfred Modlb. 1821[occupation:Evangelisch-lutherischer Pfarrer] [dates:1821] [archive:Biographisches Archiv des Christentums]
- Josef Modlb. 1863ATAustrian author and singer (1863-1915)
- Viktoria Modlb. 1872PLGerman director (1872–1942)
- Josef Modlb. 1931ATAustrian politician
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 132 | #133,220 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 124 | #135,593 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 34 | #12,708 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 33 | #38,789 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- How do you pronounce Modl?
- A machine transcription gives /motl/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Modl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 450 people named Modl in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled modl.
- How common is the name Modl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 124 people named Modl in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/modlThe 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, “Modl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.