Nöll

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Variante zu Nolte/Nold; patronymische Kurzform mit lt/ld > l; 433 Belege

Nöll is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 6.9K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CACanada≈1 in 31K
  • USUnited States1 in 32K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈37,000 people, est.

Sources
346 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Noll in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 4 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)

recorded in German

Variante zu Nolte/Nold; patronymische Kurzform mit lt/ld > l; 433 Belege.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nöll 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.

Where Nöll is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈37,000 est.≈1 in 37K—Noll4
DE Germany#479≈12,000 est.≈1 in 6.9KlistedNoll157
US United States—10,3741 in 32K10KNoll346
GB United Kingdom—≈2,000 est.≈1 in 34K108Noll66
BR Brazil—1,8371 in 115K1.8K—2
CA Canada—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 31K—Noll70
AT Austria—≈280 est.≈1 in 32K2Noll38
IE Ireland—≈200 est.≈1 in 25K—Noll11

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; the dfa-band-6 register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nöll is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Noll, Ñoll

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Switzerland

    Also written Noll

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Nöll is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Familienname aus dem Rufnamen Arnold; 433 Träger.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

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)

  • Hermann Nöllb. 1899DEGerman writer, prisoner, revolutionary, thief

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Nöll
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
DE GermanyDeutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 6———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Nöll mean?
Recorded meaning: Variante zu Nolte/Nold; patronymische Kurzform mit lt/ld > l; 433 Belege.
In which country does Nöll have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Nöll in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled noll.
How common is the name Nöll?
In the United States, the national register counted 10,374 people named Nöll in 2010, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
How common is Nöll compared with other names?
In Germany, Nöll is the 479th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Nöll” — the 479th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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