Pfuhl
surname · Latin script
Meaning: toponymic surname from a place/dwelling name, likely to the gleichlautende SiedlungsN im Westerwald; bearer count 505
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/pfəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pfuhl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 77K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 354K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 77K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)toponymic surname from a place/dwelling name, likely to the gleichlautende SiedlungsN im Westerwald; bearer count 505.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pfuhl 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 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Pfuhl | 76 |
| US United States | 297 | 1 in 1.1M | 297 | Pfuhl | 105 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 679K | — | Pfuhl | 10 |
| IT Italy | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Pfuhl | 2 |
| AU Australia | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 545K | — | Pfuhl | 22 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 354K | — | Pfuhl | 1 |
| NO Norway | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 515K | — | Pfuhl | 5 |
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. 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)Pfuhl is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, shallow pond, pool
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, from pfuhl 'marsh, pond'.
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)- Johannes Pfuhlb. 1846DEGerman sculptor
- Eduard Pfuhlb. 1852DEGerman physician and medical officer
- Ernst Pfuhlb. 1876DEGerman classical archaeologist (1876–1940)
- Herb Pfuhlb. 1928USAmerican schoolteacher; Mayor of Johnstown, Pennsylvania (1928-2011)
- Albert Pfuhlb. 1929DEGerman politician (1929-2005)
- Gavin Pfuhlb. 1947ZASouth African cricketer (1947-2002)
- Mark PfuhlDEresearcher
- Gerit PfuhlNOresearcher
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 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 297 | #66,553 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 282 | #65,668 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 275 | #75,616 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Pfuhl mean, and where does it come from?
- toponymic surname from a place/dwelling name, likely to the gleichlautende SiedlungsN im Westerwald; bearer count 505. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- What are other forms of the name Pfuhl?
- In the etymology graph, Pool and Poel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Pfuhl?
- A machine transcription gives /pfəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pfuhl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Pfuhl in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pfuhl.
- How common is the name Pfuhl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 297 people named Pfuhl in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million 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/pfuhlThe 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, “Pfuhl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.