Kagel
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kagel is a surname, most frequently recorded in Germany. In American Samoa it is the 29th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: 1. from Kugel. 2. from place name in Potsdam.
- USUnited States1 in 565K◐
- ASAmerican Samoa1 in 2.4K
- DEGermany1 in 138K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈682 ●
- Sources
- 136 ●
- 1 in 561K ◐
across 7 countries
7.3K records
Official registry-verified
Argentina
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kaegel in LB Lebanon, CD Congo - Kinshasa.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
1. from Kugel. 2. from place name in Potsdam
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | 804 | 741 rec. | — | listed | Kagel | 53 |
| US United States | — | 589 | 5.8K rec. | 1 in 565K | 597 | Kagel | 136 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 173 | 175 rec. | — | — | Kagel | 5 |
| CA Canada | — | 157 | 158 rec. | — | — | Kagel | 17 |
| AR Argentina | — | 81 | — | 1 in 561K | 81 | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | — | 76 | 77 rec. | — | — | Kagel | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | 59 | 55 rec. | — | — | Kagel | 9 |
| IT Italy | — | 58 | 58 rec. | — | — | Kagel | 2 |
| LB Lebanon | — | 18 | 18 rec. | — | — | Kaegel | 1 |
| RU Russia | — | 11 | 12 rec. | — | — | Kagel | 3 |
| AS American Samoa | #29 | 10 | 35 rec. | — | — | Kagel | 1 |
| SG Singapore | — | 9 | 9 rec. | — | — | Kagel | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English5.9K68%
- German1.2K14%
- Spanish85610%
- 1141%
- Portuguese521%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 5,869 | 68% |
| German | 1,199 | 14% |
| Spanish | 856 | 10% |
| 114 | 1% | |
| Portuguese | 52 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Kagel 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 German, metonymic occupational name for a maker of hoods or hooded robes and cloaks, from Low German Kogel, Kagel (from Latin cuculla ‘sphere’).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, Personenname; zu mhd. gugel/kugel/kogel 'Kapuze, Kappe' bzw. ggf. zu 'Kugel'/'Kugelspieler'. Bearer count: 668.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Unklar; wohl Herkunftsname zu Kagel (Siedlungsname). 668 Bearer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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●
- Mauricio Kagelb. 1931ARArgentine-German composer (1931-2008)
- John Kagelb. 1942USAmerican economist
- Marie Kagelb. 1999DEGerman association football player
- Ela KagelDEActivist from Germany
- Carl KagelUSbasketball 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 597 | #35,621 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 589 | #37,735 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 566 | #41,459 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 81 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #62,803 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #144,714 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #206,281 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #81,096 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1 | #27,451 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 12 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kagel?
- We estimate roughly 682 people bear Kagel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kagel have the most bearers?
- Kagel is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled kagel.
- How common is Kagel compared with other names?
- In American Samoa, Kagel is the 29th most common surname of 121 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Kagel mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. from Kugel. 2. from place name in Potsdam
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kagel” — the 29th most common surname in American Samoa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.