Viertel
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: An old German liquid measure
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈvɪɹtɛɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Viertel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 840K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 892K
- USUnited States1 in 1M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 840K (inferred from the name graph)
331 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
Switzerland
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)
quarter, district
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Viertel is read(measured from records)
Viertel is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English44%
An old German liquid measure.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German36%
quarter, district
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
quarter, fourth
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Viertel in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Viertel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 331 | 1 in 1M | 338 | Viertel | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 151 | 1 in 1.4M | 151 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 18 | 1 in 2.1M | 11 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 12 | 1 in 892K | 12 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | — |
331 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Johan Carl Fredrik Viertelb. 1772DKDanish painter (1772–1834)
- Anton Viertelb. 1841DEGerman teacher and classical philologist (1841–1912)
- Berthold Viertelb. 1885ATAustrian film director (1885–1953)
- Salka Viertelb. 1889USAmerican actress and screenwriter (1899–1978)
- Peter Viertelb. 1920USAmerican dramatist (1920-2007)
- Martin Viertelb. 1925DEGerman author (1925-2005)
- Gabriele Viertelb. 1951DEGerman archivist
- Anett Viertelb. 1967German association football player
- Gabriele Viertelb. 1969DEGerman photographer
- Mort FertelUSnot in their usual nameAmerican businessman and author
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 338 | #56,526 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 331 | #60,790 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 306 | #69,166 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 151 | #46,120 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 12 | #72,432 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 11 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 11 | #130,713 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #172,828 |
| 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
- Where does the name Viertel come from?
- quarter, district Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- How do you pronounce Viertel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈvɪɹtɛɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Viertel mean?
- In English, An old German liquid measure.
- In which country does Viertel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 331 people named Viertel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled viertel.
- Where is Viertel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Viertel is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 840 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Viertel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 331 people named Viertel in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/viertelThe 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, “Viertel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.