Reidel
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/rejdel/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Reidel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Reidel.
- DEGermany≈1 in 130Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 242K
- DKDenmark1 in 345K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 187 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 126K (inferred from the name graph)
≈660 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)Borrowed from German Reidel.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where the surname Reidel is found
(measured from records)Reidel 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 | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Reidel | 60 |
| US United States | 594 | 1 in 560K | 666 | Reidel | 187 |
| BR Brazil | 332 | 1 in 638K | 332 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 188 | 1 in 242K | 188 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 577K | 12 | Reidel | 21 |
| CA Canada | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 411K | — | Reidel | 37 |
| SG Singapore | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 290K | — | Reidel | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 17 | 1 in 345K | 17 | — | 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)- Marlene Reidelb. 1923DEGerman author and illustrator (1923–2014)
- Karl Reidelb. 1927DEGerman sculptor (1927-2006)
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Reidel mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Reidel. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Reidel?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /rejdel/; in Portuguese /ɾedɛl/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Reidel?
- Mondonomo estimates about 664 people named Reidel in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reidel. After it come United States, Brazil, Argentina and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Reidel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 594 people named Reidel in 2010, about 1 in 560 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Reidel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reidelThe 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, “Reidel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.