Stuhl
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from 'chair, seat', 'weaving loom', 'judge's seat', or topographic 'elevated place'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/stuɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stuhl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- MOMacao≈1 in 40K
- DEGermany≈1 in 192K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Macao, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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(measured from records)
from 'chair, seat', 'weaving loom', 'judge's seat', or topographic 'elevated place'.
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stuhl 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 969K | — | Stuhl | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 192K | listed | Stuhl | 60 |
| US United States | — | 276 | 1 in 1.2M | 366 | Stuhl | 146 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 198K | — | Stuhl | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Stuhl | 5 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 18 | 1 in 595K | 18 | — | — |
| MO Macao | #377 | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Stuhl | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 559K | — | Stuhl | 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; the deutsche-namenkunde-gottschald-1982 register; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Stuhl is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, chair
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In German, a chair (to sit on)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, masculine singular past active participle of stuhnout
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)
- Carl Stuhlb. 1808DEGerman painter, graphic artist and photographer (1808–1877)
- Jean Stuhlb. 1862FRFrench politician (1862-1942)
- Lazar Stuhlb. 1930RORomanian-born American Holocaust survivor (1930-2003)
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 366 | #59,630 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 289 | #64,385 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 276 | #70,833 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 18 | #57,204 |
| DE Germany | Deutsche Namenkunde (Gottschald, 1982) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Stuhl mean, and where does it come from?
- from 'chair, seat', 'weaving loom', 'judge's seat', or topographic 'elevated place'. Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Stuhl?
- In the etymology graph, Hocker, Tisch and Stoel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Stuhl?
- A machine transcription gives /stuɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Stuhl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Stuhl in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stuhl.
- How common is the name Stuhl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 276 people named Stuhl in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Stuhl compared with other names?
- In Macao, Stuhl is the 377th most common surname of 436 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stuhlThe 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, “Stuhl” — the 377th most common surname in Macao. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.