Nevel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: new Hebrew name meaning ‘harp’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/neɪˈvɛɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nevel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 437K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 437K (inferred from the name graph)
761 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
new Hebrew name meaning ‘harp’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nevel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 761 | 1 in 437K | 856 | Nevel | 13 |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
| PS Palestine | — | — | — | Nevel | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 14 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | — | 2 | — | — |
761 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present). 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)
Nevel 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 Russian, "not great."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Hungarian, bring up, raise, rear (children or sometimes animals)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sco, To beat with the fists.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dum, fog, mist
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 856 | #26,738 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 851 | #29,547 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 761 | #30,630 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 14 | #114,673 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #71,439 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Nevel mean, and where does it come from?
- new Hebrew name meaning ‘harp’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Nevel?
- A machine transcription gives /neɪˈvɛɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Nevel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 761 people named Nevel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nevel.
- Where is Nevel most common?
- Nevel is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 437 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nevel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 761 people named Nevel in 2010, about 1 in 437 thousand 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/nevelThe 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, “Nevel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.