Rebell

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: Obsolete spelling of rebel

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/əbɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Rebell is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 840K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 1.6M

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.

Poland (measured from records)

24 people, 2026

Sources
9 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 840K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Obsolete spelling of rebel.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Rebell is read(measured from records)

Rebell is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English60%

    Obsolete spelling of rebel.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • German19%

    Zu Berufs-/Übernamen oder zu Rufnamen mit ahd. (h)raban 'Rabe'; 448 Träger.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • French6.3%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Rebell in French.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rebell 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.

Where Rebell is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland241 in 1.6M14——
CH Switzerland101 in 840K10——
US United States——listedRebell9
MX Mexico———Rebell8
AR Argentina———Rebell3

24 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Rebell is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Rebell'

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Rëbëlľ, Rêbêll

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

175018001850190019502000Josef Rebell, b. 1787Hugues Rebell, b. 1867Fred Rebell, b. 1886Fritz Rebell, b. 1905Volker Rebell, b. 1947Walter Rebell, b. 1951

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)

FormalDear Ms Rebell,
InformalHi Rebell,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Rebell
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202614—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—14#111,977
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202610—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202410#60,931
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—10#137,494
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

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 Rebell mean, and where does it come from?
Obsolete spelling of rebel. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Rebell?
A machine transcription gives /əbɛl/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Rebell have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 24 people named Rebell, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Rebell most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rebell is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 840 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Rebell?
In Poland, the national register counted 24 people named Rebell in 2026, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.

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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, “Rebell”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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