Stahle

Name: Stahle: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

Meaning: Personal characteristic; rare Westphalian form related to Stoll/Stolle (< nd

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

Pronunciation:Explore pronunciation →

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

FIFinland1 in 14K(measured from records)
SESweden1 in 21K
DEGermany≈1 in 62K

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 Stahle 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)
Record sources: 164 (measured from records)
: 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ståhle in SE Sweden, DK Denmark and Stähle in DE Germany.

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

Personal characteristic; rare Westphalian form related to Stoll/Stolle (< nd. stāle/stal ‘leg, support’). Bearer count: 1+8.

Cited for this meaning 1

Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Stahle 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 Stahle is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
DE Germany	≈1,300 est.	≈1 in 62K	—	Stähle	66
US United States	719	1 in 463K	719	Stahle	164
IN India	≈570 est.	≈1 in 2.6M	—	Stahle	1
SE Sweden	496	1 in 21K	496	Ståhle	25
FI Finland	401	1 in 14K	401	Stahle	5
DK Denmark	27	1 in 217K	27	Ståhle	12
UY Uruguay	22as Staehle	1 in 154K	22	—	—

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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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

Stahle is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

French surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, United States
Also written Stähle, Ståhle
a separate name4 spellings in the group
Also written Ståhle, Stâhle, Stähle
Hindi surname5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States
Also written Ståhle, Stähle
Arabic surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Also written Ståhle
Italian surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States
Also written Stähle, Ståhle

28 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

James Alonzo Stahleb. 1829USUnion Army officer and American politician (1829-1912)
Ian Oliver Stahleb. 1918AUAustralian dermatologist (1918-1999)
Hanna Stahleb. 1964SESwedish artist
Daniel Stahleb. 1974BOBolivian alpine skier
Louise Stahleb. 1985SEprofessional golfer
David W. StahleUSAmerican climate researcher

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

FormalDear Stahle,

InformalHello,

Evidence

9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Stahle
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010	2010	719	#32,079
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020	2020	710	#34,389
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000	2000	658	#32,856
US United States	wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)	—	—	—

Reference works 2

Wikipedia surname tokens
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Stahle come from?: Personal characteristic; rare Westphalian form related to Stoll/Stolle (< nd. stāle/stal ‘leg, support’). Bearer count: 1+8. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
What does the name Stahle mean?: Recorded meaning: Personal characteristic; rare Westphalian form related to Stoll/Stolle (< nd.
In which country does Stahle have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Stahle in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stähle.
Where is Stahle most common?: Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stahle is densest in Finland — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Stahle?: In the United States, the national register counted 719 people named Stahle in 2010, about 1 in 463 thousand residents.

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The 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 2026-10-13 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, “Stahle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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