Orel

surname · Ukrainian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Orel is a surname, most frequently recorded in Russia. It appears chiefly in Ukrainian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Alternative spelling of Oryol, an oblast of Russia.

rarermore common
  • RURussia1 in 1.9K◐
  • UAUkraine1 in 5K
  • TRTürkiye1 in 285K

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

≈4.1K ●

across 15 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
119 ●

75K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 4.9K ◐

Slovenia

Spellings & scripts●

OrelLatin · Ukrainian●11K records
ОрёлCyrillic · Russian●65K records

Locally spelled Орел in UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and 5 more, Орёл in RU Russia and Oriol in ES Spain.

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●

Alternative spelling of Oryol, an oblast of Russia.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Orel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia—92,09811K rec.——Орёл119
UA Ukraine#45762,75463K rec.——Орел44
ES Spain—1,543△105 rec.1 in 32K20KOriol20
TR Türkiye—1,087906 rec.——Orel20
KZ Kazakhstan—645306 rec.—69Орел21
US United States—607△231 rec.1 in 548K694Orel32
SI Slovenia#720433△3 rec.1 in 4.9K433Orel3
PL Poland—418—1 in 92K418——
CZ Czechia—411—1 in 26K412——
FR France—249—1 in 272K249——
AR Argentina—106—1 in 429K106——
BR Brazil—97—1 in 2.2M97——

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Ukrainian11K40%
  • English4K14%
  • Czech3.1K11%
  • Polish2.3K8%
  • French1.6K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Ukrainian11,27240%
English4,04814%
Czech3,10011%
Polish2,3428%
French1,6366%

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◐

Orel is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname9.2K records spelled Orel12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Philippines, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Oerel, Örel, O'Rel, Or-El

  • Spanish surname3.1K records spelled Orel2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Argentina, Spain

    Also written Or-El

  • Spanish given name2.8K records spelled Orel28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Peru, United States, France

    Languages: Spanish, Catalan, English

    Also written Oriol, Orél, Orèl, O'Rel, Oryol

  • Polish surname2.4K records spelled Orel3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States

    Also written Orél, Örel

  • Hebrew given name2.0K records spelled Orel6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, Romania, Lebanon, United States

    Also written אוראל, אורל, אור-אל, Or-El, Orèl

  • Croatian surname785 records spelled Orel16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian

    Also written Orelj, Орел, Орељ, Орёл, Orël

  • Portuguese surname401 records spelled Orel4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Philippines, United States, Russia

    Also written Örel, Orël, Orél

  • Romanian surname323 records spelled Orel3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Russia, Ukraine

    Also written Orēl, Örel

49 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●

Orel is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Czech, eagle (bird)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Russian port

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Russian, "eagle"

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In Portuguese, Oryol, Orel (an oblast of Russia)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Estonian, organ

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

020406019001950200046 · 1916

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Orel in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1883–2025
Yearrecords
18835
18915
19076
19096
191210
19138
191410
191521
191646
191722
191817
191918
192016
19219
192214
192314
192421
19257
19267
192711
19296
19308
19319
19328
19338
19348
19358
19365
19379
19389
19405
19415
19425
19439
19475
19595
19787
19889
198912
199011
19916
19927
19938
19959
19988
19995
20007
200211
20039
20046
20059
20066
20076
20087
20099
20126
20135
20157
20166
20177
20218
20235
20245
20256

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 64 years between 1883–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Boris Orel, b. 1903Vladimir Orel, b. 1931Anatolii Orel, b. 1943Vladimir Orel, b. 1952Marina Orel, b. 1979Marko Orel, b. 1986Pavel Orel, b. 1988Anna Maria Orel, b. 1996

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 52 sources across 33 countries.

Official registers attesting Orel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—433#776
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026418—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—418#7,904
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—412#1,926
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—412#3,399
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—411#3,789
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020370#59,100
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020364#22,610
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010349#58,182
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000336#56,826
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026283—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—283#11,567

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 · 226 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Orel?
We estimate roughly 4.1 thousand people bear Orel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Orel have the most bearers?
Orel is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled орёл.
How common is Orel compared with other names?
In Ukraine, Orel is the 457th most common surname of 1,166,671 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Orel mean?
Recorded meaning: Alternative spelling of Oryol, an oblast of Russia.
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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, “Orel” — the 457th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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