Nagele
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nagele is a surname, most frequently recorded in Germany. In Liechtenstein it is the 50th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: variant of Nagel.
- DEGermany1 in 22K◐
- USUnited States1 in 274K
- LILiechtenstein1 in 282
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.9K ●
- Sources
- 161 ●
- 1 in 60K ◐
across 15 countries
20K records
Official registry-verified
Switzerland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Naegele in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 8 more and Nägele in DE Germany.
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●
- Middle Dutchnāgel◐via Nagel
- Old Dutch*nagal◐via Nagel
- Proto-West Germanic*nagl◐via Nagel
- Proto-Germanic*naglaz◐via Nagel
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
variant of Nagel.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 6 languages 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 | — | 5,025 | 4.4K rec. | — | — | Nägele | 75 |
| US United States | — | 1,216 | 13K rec. | 1 in 274K | 1.2K | Naegele | 161 |
| AT Austria | #713 | 759 | 441 rec. | — | — | Nagele | 51 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 551 | 529 rec. | — | — | Naegele | 17 |
| CA Canada | — | 218 | 223 rec. | — | — | Naegele | 9 |
| BR Brazil | — | 212△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 999K | 212 | — | 1 |
| LI Liechtenstein | #50 | 211 | 4 rec. | — | 85 | Nagele | 5 |
| AU Australia | — | 194 | 192 rec. | — | — | Naegele | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 139 | 86 rec. | 1 in 60K | 139 | Nagele | 13 |
| IN India | — | 117△ | 18 rec. | 1 in 11M | 117 | Nagele | 6 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 76 | 83 rec. | — | — | Naegele | 2 |
| IT Italy | — | 66 | 79 rec. | — | — | Naegele | 3 |
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Languages●
- English3.7K42%
- German1.8K20%
- Hindi95911%
- Spanish86110%
- 4946%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 3,717 | 42% |
| German | 1,785 | 20% |
| Hindi | 959 | 11% |
| Spanish | 861 | 10% |
| 494 | 6% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Josef Nageleb. 1860ATpolitician (1860-1926)
- Michael Nageleb. 1884ATAustrian politician (1884-1969)
- Albert Nageleb. 1927ATAustrian composer
- Elisabeth Nageleb. 1933CHSwiss luger (1933–1993)
- Magdalena Nageleb. 1987ATAustrian association football player
- Silvia NageleATAustrian association football 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 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 501 | #43,151 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 492 | #46,623 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 472 | #43,157 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 143 | #3,720 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 117 | #25,688 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 63 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 47 | #19,565 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 24 | #74,889 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 24 | #73,510 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 20 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 14 | #50,147 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 13 | #81,780 |
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 · 19 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nagele?
- We estimate roughly 1.9 thousand people bear Nagele (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nagele have the most bearers?
- Nagele is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled nägele.
- How common is Nagele compared with other names?
- In Liechtenstein, Nagele is the 50th most common surname of 657 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Nagele mean?
- Recorded meaning: variant of Nagel.
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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, “Nagele” — the 50th most common surname in Liechtenstein. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.