Stoel
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Western Frisian: chair, seat
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/stəəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stoel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 13K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M
- SGSingapore≈1 in 582K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
1,358 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a chair, a piece of furniture used for sitting, normally portable and having four legs
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Stoel is read(measured from records)
Stoel is one spelling over 5 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.
- English54%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Stoel in English.
- Western Frisian27%
chair, seat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Dutch22%
a chair, a piece of furniture used for sitting, normally portable and having four legs
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German7.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Stoel in German.
- Norwegian5.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Stoel in Norwegian.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Stoel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 1,358 | 1 in 13K | 1.4K | Stoel | 60 |
| US United States | 185 | 1 in 1.8M | 244 | Stoel | 104 |
| CA Canada | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 929K | — | Stoel | 11 |
| DE Germany | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Stoel | 14 |
| AU Australia | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 806K | — | Stoel | 30 |
| BE Belgium | 13 | 1 in 902K | 13 | Stoel | 4 |
| SG Singapore | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 582K | — | Stoel | 2 |
1,358 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Stoel 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 Afrikaans, chair
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Christina Stoelb. 1859NLDutch painter (1859-1908)
- Max van der Stoelb. 1924NLDutch politician (1924-2011)
- Henny Stoelb. 1945NLDutch news presenter, television presenter and journalist
- Edith Stoelb. 1951NLDutch visual artist
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 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.4K | #1,138 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 244 | #83,139 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 217 | #81,100 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 185 | #98,099 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 13 | #62,217 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Stoel come from?
- a chair, a piece of furniture used for sitting, normally portable and having four legs Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Stoel?
- In the etymology graph, Stuhl is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Stoel?
- A machine transcription gives /stəəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Stoel mean?
- In Western Frisian, chair, seat
- In which country does Stoel have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Stoel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stoel.
- Where is Stoel most common?
- Stoel is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Stoel?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,358 people named Stoel in 2007, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Stoel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stoelThe 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, “Stoel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.