Naegeli
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Nagel
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈnɛɡɪɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Naegeli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 916K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 4M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 6.2Kas Nägeli
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 Naegeli 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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- 1 in 916K (inferred from the name graph)
1,365 named Nägeli, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Nageli in US United States, IN India, KE Kenya and 2 more.
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)- Middle Dutchnāgel(inferred from the name graph)via Nagel
- Old Dutch*nagal(inferred from the name graph)via Nagel
- Proto-West Germanic*nagl(inferred from the name graph)via Nagel
- Proto-Germanic*naglaz(inferred from the name graph)via Nagel
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
variant of Nagel.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Naegeli 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #680 | 1,365as Nägeli | 1 in 6.2K | 1.4K | Naegeli | 43 |
| US United States | — | 363 | 1 in 916K | 383 | Nageli | 71 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 694K | — | Nageli | 4 |
| IN India | — | 58as Nageli | 1 in 23M | 58 | Nageli | 4 |
| BR Brazil | — | 53 | 1 in 4M | 53 | — | — |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Nageli | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 968K | — | Nageli | 1 |
1,365 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024, counting the spelling nägeli. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)- Oskar Naegelib. 1885CHSwiss chess player (1885-1959)
- Jacques Naegelib. 1885CHSwiss photographer (1885-1971)
- Theodor Naegelib. 1886CH(1886-1971)
- Fritz Naegelib. 1918CHSchaffhausen politician (1918-1994)
- Wilfried Naegelib. 1932CHSwiss politician
- Harald Naegelib. 1939CHSwiss artist
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 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 383 | #51,119 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 363 | #56,310 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 339 | #63,550 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 94 | #11,616 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 53 | #100,662 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Naegeli mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Nagel. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Naegeli?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnɛɡɪɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Naegeli have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Nägeli, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Naegeli most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Naegeli is densest in the United States — about 1 in 916 thousand people — even though Switzerland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Naegeli?
- In the United States, the national register counted 363 people named Naegeli in 2010, about 1 in 916 thousand residents.
- How common is Naegeli compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Naegeli is the 680th most common surname of 127,759 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/naegeliThe 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, “Naegeli” — the 680th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.