Stencel
surname · Latin script
/ˈstɛnsəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stencel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From a German form of the Slavic personal name Stanisław / Stanislav.
- PLPoland1 in 7.5K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 50K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 64K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.5K (inferred from the name graph)
5,117 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Štencel in CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From a German form of the Slavic personal name Stanisław / Stanislav.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stencel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 5,117 | 1 in 7.5K | 2.6K | Stencel | 67 |
| US United States | 728 | 1 in 457K | 795 | Stencel | 39 |
| CZ Czechia | 216 | 1 in 50K | 216 | Štencel | 12 |
| BR Brazil | 112 | 1 in 1.9M | 112 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 600K | 19 | Stencel | 20 |
| NO Norway | 70 | 1 in 78K | 70 | Stencel | 6 |
| SK Slovakia | 23 | 1 in 237K | 23 | Štencel | 6 |
| EE Estonia | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 64K | listed | — | 1 |
5,117 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)
- Alma Stencelb. 1888USAmerican pianist and musical prodigy (1888–1933)
- Maria Stencelb. 1900PLPolish nurse (1900-1985)
- Teresa Stachowicz-Stencelb. 1950PLPolish oncologist, hematologist, pediatrician
- Grzegorz Stencelb. 1962PLPolish association football player
- Krzysztof Stencelb. 1971PLPolish mathematician and computer scientist
- Marcin Stencelb. 1977PLPolish skydiver
- Anna Stencelb. 1995PLPolish volleyball player
- Katarzyna StencelPLPolish researcher
- Marek StencelPLresearcher
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)
Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.6K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.6K | #961 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.5K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.5K | #968 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 795 | #31,239 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 728 | #31,724 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 695 | #31,492 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 112 | #58,162 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 70 | #20,641 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 19 | #93,697 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #228,831 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1 | #26,906 |
Reference works 3
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Stencel mean, and where does it come from?
- From a German form of the Slavic personal name Stanisław / Stanislav. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Stencel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈstɛnsəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Stencel have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 5.1 thousand people named Stencel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stencel.
- Where is Stencel most common?
- Stencel is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Stencel?
- In Poland, the national register counted 5,117 people named Stencel in 2026, about 1 in 7.5 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Stencel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stencelThe 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, “Stencel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.