Negele

surname · German · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Negele is a surname, most frequently recorded in Germany. In Liechtenstein it is the 35th most common surname. It appears chiefly in German and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany1 in 82K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 2M
  • LILiechtenstein1 in 199

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈203 ●

across 5 countries

Sources
72 ●

2.9K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 442K ◐

Switzerland

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Negele is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany—1,3481.2K rec.——Negele62
LI Liechtenstein#353006 rec.—129Negele21
US United States—1641.4K rec.1 in 2M174Negele72
GB United Kingdom—140136 rec.——Negele8
AU Australia—2222 rec.——Negele4
CH Switzerland—1922 rec.1 in 442K19Negele11
FR France—18—1 in 3.8M18——
PL Poland—1415 rec.——Negele1
AT Austria—102 rec.——Negele8
TZ Tanzania—911 rec.——Negele4
RU Russia—77 rec.——Negele1
IE Ireland—66 rec.——Negele1

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Languages●

  • German1.9K45%
  • English1.5K36%
  • French48512%
  • 742%
  • Spanish652%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
German1,86245%
English1,47436%
French48512%
742%
Spanish652%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Negele is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hungarian surname10 records spelled Negele2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary

    Also written Négele

  • Amharic given name10 records spelled Negele3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, United States

    Also written ነጌሌ, ነገለ

26 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Negele is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In men, v., to laugh, to deride; n., laughter, de

    as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language

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.

Over time●

01020301900192019401960198025 · 1961

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Negele in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
18919
190113
191112
19218
193113
19417
195119
196125
19719
19819
199118

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18501900195020002050Josef Negele, b. 1898Hubert Negele, b. 1919Hans Nägele, b. 1942John Negele, b. 1944Gebhard Negele, b. 1953Katrin Negele, b. 1986Katharina Negele, b. 2003Christopher Negele, b. 2005

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 11 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Negele
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000174#96,918
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020168#111,467
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010164#108,199
LI LiechtensteinStatistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames)2020129—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196125—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202419#37,994
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195119—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199118—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193113—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190113—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191112—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19819—

Reference works 2

  • 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 Negele?
We estimate roughly 203 people bear Negele (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Negele have the most bearers?
Negele is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled negele.
How common is Negele compared with other names?
In Liechtenstein, Negele is the 35th most common surname of 657 surnames recorded there.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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.

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, “Negele” — the 35th most common surname in Liechtenstein. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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