Zengel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Diminutiv zu Zang/Zange; indirekter Berufsname des Schmiedes, der Zangen herstellt oder benutzt
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zŋɡəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zengel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 5.7M(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 736K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 840K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 736K (inferred from the name graph)
304 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Diminutiv zu Zang/Zange; indirekter Berufsname des Schmiedes, der Zangen herstellt oder benutzt.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zengel 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 | 304 | 1 in 1.1M | 326 | — | 4 |
| PL Poland | 52 | 1 in 736K | 30 | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | — | Zengel | 21 |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
304 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 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Raphael Louis Zengelb. 1894USCanadian recipient of the Victoria Cross (1894–1977)
- Eva Zengelb. 1931DEGerman art historian and archaeologist
- Ryszard Zengelb. 1938PLPolish literary critic (1938-1959)
- Helena Zengelb. 2008DEGerman actress
- Bettina ZengelGBresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-0871-3158
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 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 326 | #65,688 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 322 | #58,849 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 304 | #65,244 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 30 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 30 | #70,944 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 22 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 22 | #85,967 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #59,399 |
| 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
- How do you pronounce Zengel?
- A machine transcription gives /zŋɡəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Zengel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Diminutiv zu Zang/Zange; indirekter Berufsname des Schmiedes, der Zangen herstellt oder benutzt.
- In which country does Zengel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 304 people named Zengel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Zengel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zengel is densest in Poland — about 1 in 736 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zengel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 304 people named Zengel in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 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/zengelThe 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, “Zengel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.