Strempel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a word for an instrument for pounding/stirring; also a nickname for a 'small, thick man'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Strempel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 56K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M
- MLMali≈1 in 27K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Mali, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a word for an instrument for pounding/stirring; also a nickname for a 'small, thick man'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Strempel 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 | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 56K | listed | Strempel | 97 |
| ML Mali | #630 | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Strempel | 1 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 322K | — | Strempel | 1 |
| US United States | — | 220 | 1 in 1.5M | 235 | Strempel | 97 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 346K | — | Strempel | 42 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Strempel | 2 |
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 2000; the deutsche-namenkunde-gottschald-1982 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)
Strempel 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 German, Instrument zum Stoßen(strempen, strürnp- (f)en, z. B. Butterstrem- pel, danach, "kleiner, dicker Mann"). Stremp|- ler, fer; Strümp | fler, el(l)
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Carl Strempelb. 1800DEGerman physician and botanist (1800-1872)
- Elisabeth Strempelb. 1840DEGerman painter
- Horst Strempelb. 1904DEGerman artist (1904-1975)
- Erwin Strempelb. 1924DEAssociation footballer (1924-1999)
- Gesine Strempelb. 1940DEGerman writer, reporter, presenter and translator
- Ilse Strempelb. 1946DEGerman ophthalmologist
- Karin Strempelb. 1961DEGerman politician
- Mike Strempelb. 1965DEGerman badminton player
- Sebastian Strempelb. 1967DEGerman trumpeter
- Eileen StrempelUSsinger
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 235 | #76,208 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 220 | #85,049 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 189 | #101,718 |
| DE Germany | Deutsche Namenkunde (Gottschald, 1982) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Strempel mean, and where does it come from?
- from a word for an instrument for pounding/stirring; also a nickname for a 'small, thick man' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Strempel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Strempel in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled strempel.
- How common is the name Strempel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 220 people named Strempel in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
- How common is Strempel compared with other names?
- In Mali, Strempel is the 630th most common surname of 7,873 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/strempelThe 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, “Strempel” — the 630th most common surname in Mali. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.