Thiele
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Apokope; plate shows loss of final vowel in Thiele ~ Thiel
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Thiele is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 25K
- USUnited States1 in 74K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 280 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Apokope; plate shows loss of final vowel in Thiele ~ Thiel.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thiele 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 | #141 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Thiele | 174 |
| US United States | — | 4,478 | 1 in 74K | 4.5K | Thiele | 280 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 114K | 575 | — | 3 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 1 | Thiele | 116 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 114K | 184 | Thiele | 67 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 402 | 1 in 43K | 402 | Thiele | 25 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Thiele | 34 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 238 | 1 in 35K | 238 | Thiele | 36 |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Thiele is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Patronymisch zu Rufname Thielo, aus germ. Rufnamen mit Thiot- und -l-Suffix; Typ Thiele 12898, Typ Thiel 23589. Die Karte zeigt die ie-/i-Variante Thiele/Thiel.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Apokope- und Vokalvarianten zu Kurzformen; wohl aus Diet-/Thied- bzw. ähnlichen Rufnamen. 12898 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Nachname mit apokopierter Nebenform; Karte zeigt Schreibung und Apokope bei Th-/T-/D-Varianten.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, aus dem Rufnamen Thiele/Thiel; Kurzform zu diot-Namen
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)
- Thorvald Nicolai Thieleb. 1838DKDanish astronomer (1838–1910)
- Johannes Thieleb. 1860DEGerman zoologist and malacologist (1860–1935)
- Friedrich Karl Johannes Thieleb. 1865PLGerman chemist (1865-1918)
- Holger Thieleb. 1878USDanish American astronomer (1878–1946)
- Edwin R. Thieleb. 1895USAmerican archaeologist (1895–1986)
- Hertha Thieleb. 1908DEGerman actress (1908-1984)
- Bob Thieleb. 1922USAmerican record producer, music executive (1922-1996)
- Gerhard Thieleb. 1953DEGerman astronaut
- Annekatrin Thieleb. 1984DEGerman rower
- Kerstin Thieleb. 1986DEGerman judoka
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 35 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.5K | #7,437 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.4K | #6,955 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.3K | #7,487 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 741 | #12,006 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 402 | #4,979 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 238 | #5,396 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 184 | #22,515 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- 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)
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Thiele mean, and where does it come from?
- Apokope; plate shows loss of final vowel in Thiele ~ Thiel. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- In which country does Thiele have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Thiele in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thiele.
- How common is the name Thiele?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,478 people named Thiele in 2010, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
- How common is Thiele compared with other names?
- In Germany, Thiele is the 141st most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thieleThe 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, “Thiele” — the 141st most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.