Roedel

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Rodel in PH Philippines, ID Indonesia, BR Brazil and 15 more and Rödel in DE Germany, AT Austria.

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●

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Roedel is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese surname3.4K records spelled Roedel4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Peru, Mexico

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Röedel, Roédel

31 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●

Roedel 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 Dutch, group of animals, especially a pack of wolves

  as a word·kaikki.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●

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●

• Auguste Roedelb. 1859FRFrench caricaturist (1859-1900)
• Reto Roedelb. 1898IT(1898-1991)
• Gerhard Roedelb. 1908DEGerman diplomat (1908–1986)
• Gonzalo Ortiz de Zevallos Roedelb. 1914PEPeruvian magistrate and lawyer (1914-1999)
• Hannelore Roedelb. 1957DEGerman politician

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 24 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Roedel?

We estimate roughly 1.3 thousand people bear Roedel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.

In which country does Roedel have the most bearers?

Roedel is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled rodel.

How common is Roedel compared with other names?

In the Philippines, Roedel is the 129th most common given name of 462,140 given names recorded there.

What does the name Roedel mean?

Recorded meaning: Place name from the town of Roedelheim near Frankfort, Baden 1809.