Pagel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Zu Paul; Karte zeigt g-/gg- und -l/-ll sowie -w-Variante
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈpæɡəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pagel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 66K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 155K
- DKDenmark1 in 140K
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
- 57 (measured from records)
- 1 in 66K (inferred from the name graph)
5,043 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Zu Paul; Karte zeigt g-/gg- und -l/-ll sowie -w-Variante. 3+2171 Belege.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pagel 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 | 5,043 | 1 in 66K | 5K | Pagel | 57 |
| BR Brazil | 1,366 | 1 in 155K | 1.4K | Pagel | 47 |
| AR Argentina | 88 | 1 in 517K | 88 | Pagel | 18 |
| DK Denmark | 42 | 1 in 140K | 42 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 42 | 1 in 911K | 26 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 36 | 1 in 233K | 36 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | 22 | 1 in 249K | 22 | — | — |
5,043 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Pagel is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from Paulus, Latin paulus 'small'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, from Paulus
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In poz-wmp-pro, tired, exhausted
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Julius Leopold Pagelb. 1851DEGerman physician (1851–1912)
- Paul Pagelb. 1894DEGerman politician (1894–1955)
- Walter Pagelb. 1898DEpathologist and medical historian (1898-1983)
- Bernard Pagelb. 1930GBBritish astronomer
- Mark Pagelb. 1954USbiologist
- David Pagelb. 1954USAmerican politician
- Mike Pagelb. 1960USAmerican football player
- Michel Pagelb. 1961FRFrench writer and translator
- Sven Pagelb. 1973DEProfessor for Business Informatics and Media Management
- Christina Pagelb. 1975GBBritish German mathematician
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)
Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5K | #6,697 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5K | #6,306 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.8K | #6,689 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.4K | #6,932 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 88 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 42 | #12,372 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 36 | #23,866 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 26 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 26 | #76,936 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 22 | #40,063 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 16 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 16 | #103,294 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Pagel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpæɡəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Pagel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Zu Paul; Karte zeigt g-/gg- und -l/-ll sowie -w-Variante.
- In which country does Pagel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.0 thousand people named Pagel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pagel.
- Where is Pagel most common?
- Pagel is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 66 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pagel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,043 people named Pagel in 2010, about 1 in 66 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Pagel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pagelThe 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, “Pagel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.