Nudel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a noodle, a string or lump of pasta
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/nudel/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Nudel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 186K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 455K
- DEGermany≈1 in 770Kfew records
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 Nudel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- 1 in 186K (inferred from the name graph)
388 named נודל, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled נודל in IL Israel, AR Argentina and Нудель in RU Russia, UA Ukraine.
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)a noodle, a string or lump of pasta
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Nudel is found
(measured from records)Nudel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | 388as נודל | 1 in 22K | 388 | נודל | 20 |
| US United States | 146 | 1 in 2.3M | 161 | Nudel | 105 |
| RU Russia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Нудель | 76 |
| DE Germany | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 770K | — | Nudel | 27 |
| AR Argentina | 100 | 1 in 455K | 100 | נודל | 2 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 743K | — | Нудель | 21 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 462K | — | Nudel | 3 |
388 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)Nudel 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 Danish, noodle (string or strip of pasta)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a noodle (form of pasta)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, synonym of makaron
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pdc, noodle, pasta
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ida Nudelb. 1931ILSoviet dissident
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nudel mean, and where does it come from?
- a noodle, a string or lump of pasta Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Nudel?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /nudel/; in German /ˈnuːdl̩/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Nudel?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 388 people named נודל, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Russia, Germany and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Nudel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nudel is densest in Finland — about 1 in 186 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nudel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 146 people named Nudel in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Nudel?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nudelThe 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, “Nudel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.