Nölte
surname · Latin script
Meaning: inflection of nölen: (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Nölte is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Nölte is also written โนลเท in Thai.
- DEGermany≈1 in 4.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 23K
- NLNetherlands1 in 49K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 338 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Nölte in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled Nolte 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)inflection of nölen:
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Nölte is found
(measured from records)Nölte 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 | #334 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | listed | Nolte | 170 |
| US United States | — | 6,180 | 1 in 54K | 6.2K | Nolte | 338 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Nolte | 39 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 80K | 68 | Nolte | 55 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Nolte | 47 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Nolte | 61 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 356 | 1 in 49K | 356 | Nolte | 27 |
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); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)- Manfred NolteDEresearcher
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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nölte mean, and where does it come from?
- inflection of nölen: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Nölte?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Nölte in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nolte. After it come United States, South Africa, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Nölte?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,180 people named Nölte in 2010, about 1 in 54 thousand residents.
- How common is Nölte compared with other names?
- In Germany, Nölte is the 334th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%B6lteThe 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, “Nölte” — the 334th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.