Stöckel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: personal characteristic: short, stumpy; small stick
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries
/ʃtœkl̩/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stöckel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 41K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
- SESweden1 in 71K
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)
- Record sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Stockel in US United States, IT Italy.
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)personal characteristic: short, stumpy; small stick
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Stöckel 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 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 41K | listed | Stöckel | 63 |
| US United States | 286 | 1 in 1.2M | 376 | Stockel | 143 |
| SE Sweden | 143 | 1 in 71K | 143 | Stöckel | 12 |
| IT Italy | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 505K | — | Stockel | 4 |
| FR France | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 927K | 5 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 203K | — | Stöckel | 12 |
| FI Finland | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 397K | — | Stöckel | 5 |
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 dfa-band-3 register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Stöckel is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, heel (of a shoe)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Diminutiv zu Stock; l-Suffix- und -el/-lein-Formen. Belegt mit 1526–1600, teils mit Genitiv. Morphologisches Muster: Stock→Stöck- + -el/-lein.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Diminutiv/Hypokoristikum zu Stock/Stück; die Karte zeigt die Bildungen auf -el, -lein, -le, -lin und -l.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Verhältnis der l-Suffixe; Variantenreihe mit -el/-lein/-le/-lin/-l.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Diminutiv auf -el; zu Stock mit oe-/ö-Schreibung. 1247 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)- Karl Traugott Stöckelb. 1804DEorgan builder
- Antonie Stöcklováb. 1861CZnot in their usual nameHolocaust victim (born 1861)
- Gertrud Stöckelb. 1867PLholocaust victim, b. 1867-10-06
- Joe Stöckelb. 1894DEGerman actor and director (1894–1959)
- Heinz Stöckelb. 1929DEGerman politician
- Dieter Stöckelb. 1945DEGerman table tennis player
- Reinhard Stöckelb. 1956DEGerman writer
- Rolf Stöckelb. 1957DEGerman politician
- Peter Stöckelb. 1976DEGerman badminton player
- Maike Stöckelb. 1984DEOlympic field hockey player
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 143 | #5,456 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 3 | — | — | — |
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 Stöckel mean, and where does it come from?
- personal characteristic: short, stumpy; small stick Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- How do you pronounce Stöckel?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃtœkl̩/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Stöckel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Stöckel in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stöckel.
- How common is the name Stöckel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 286 people named Stöckel in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/st%C3%B6ckelThe 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, “Stöckel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.