Prüll
surname · Latin script
Meaning: worthless stuff; junk
Prüll is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.9M(measured from records)
- LRLiberia≈1 in 205K
- DEGermany≈1 in 627K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Prüll itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 205K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Liberia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Prull in US United States, DE Germany, CA Canada and 2 more and Pruell in AU Australia, NZ New Zealand.
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)
worthless stuff; junk
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Prüll 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 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 627K | — | Prull | 35 |
| US United States | 113 | 1 in 2.9M | 147 | Prull | 99 |
| LR Liberia | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 205K | — | Prull | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Prull | 6 |
| AU Australia | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Pruell | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 601K | — | Pruell | 1 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Prull | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Prüll 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, Toponymischer Familienname; im Text als Flurnamen-Variante von Brühl/ortsbezogen behandelt. In der Oberpfalz konzentriert. Belegt mit 71 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
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)
- Livia Prüllb. 1961DEGerman medical historian and university lecturer
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 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Prüll mean, and where does it come from?
- worthless stuff; junk Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Prüll have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 128 people named Prüll in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled prull.
- How common is the name Prüll?
- In the United States, the national register counted 113 people named Prüll in 2010, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pr%C3%BCllThe 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, “Prüll”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.