Tassel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: either from Tessel, Calvados, or from the hawk tiercel (OFr tiercel, ME tassel); first attested Wimund de Taissel 1086 DB (Beds)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tasl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tassel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 700K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 1.5M
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 225 (measured from records)
- 1 in 700K (inferred from the name graph)
12 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
either from Tessel, Calvados, or from the hawk tiercel (OFr tiercel, ME tassel); first attested Wimund de Taissel 1086 DB (Beds)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tassel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | — | 4 |
| BE Belgium | 8 | 1 in 1.5M | 8 | Tassel | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | 7 | 1 in 2.5M | 7 | Tassel | 4 |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | Tassel | 3 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Tassel | 225 |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Tassel | 45 |
12 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Tassel 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 English, A ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads from which at one end protrudes a cord on which the ball is hung, and which may have loose, dangling threads at the other end (often used as decoration along the bottom of garments, curtains or other hangings).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, tassel (adornment for a garment)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, whispering
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)
- Richard Tasselb. 1580FRFrench painter (1582-1660)
- Jean Tasselb. 1608FRFrench painter; (1608-1667)
- Alain Tasselb. 1765FRFrench politician
- Hippolyte Tasselb. 1800FRFrench politician
- Yves Jean Tasselb. 1803FRFrench civil law notary and politician
- Didier Tasselb. 1950FRFrench politician
- Loïc Tasselb. 1967FRPresident, Europe - Procter & Gamble Europe SA
- Xavier Tasselb. 1974FRFrench politician
- Alexandre Tasselb. 1975FRFrench jazz trumpeter
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 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 12 | #53,184 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 8 | #79,286 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 7 | #71,948 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Tassel mean, and where does it come from?
- either from Tessel, Calvados, or from the hawk tiercel (OFr tiercel, ME tassel); first attested Wimund de Taissel 1086 DB (Beds) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Tassel?
- A machine transcription gives /tasl/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Tassel have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 12 people named Tassel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tassel most common?
- Tassel is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 700 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tassel?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 12 people named Tassel in 2024, about 1 in 700 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tasselThe 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, “Tassel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.