Pennel
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Pennel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Pennell.
- USUnited States1 in 642K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M
- BEBelgium1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 642K (inferred from the name graph)
518 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Variant of Pennell.
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Pennel is found
(measured from records)Pennel 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 | 518 | 1 in 642K | 518 | Pennel | 33 |
| BE Belgium | 7 | 1 in 1.7M | 7 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | — | — | Pennel | 2 |
| CO Colombia | — | — | — | Pennel | 2 |
518 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- John Pennelb. 1940USAmerican pole vaulter (1940-1993)
- Tyler Pennelb. 1987USAmerican long-distance runner
- Mike Pennelb. 1991USAmerican football player
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pennel mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Pennell. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pennel?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 518 people named Pennel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pennel. After it come Belgium and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Pennel most common?
- Pennel is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 642 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pennel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 518 people named Pennel in 2010, about 1 in 642 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/pennelThe 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, “Pennel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.