Roel

given name · English · Latin script

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

Roel is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Philippines. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: roundel.

rarermore common
  • ALAlbania1 in 2.7K◐
  • PHPhilippines1 in 3.1K
  • BEBelgium1 in 7.1K

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

≈6.5K ●

across 8 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
236 ●

105K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.7K ◐

Albania

Spellings & scripts●

RoelLatin · English●88K records
РоэлCyrillic · Russian●0 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Rohal in UA Ukraine, PL Poland, CZ Czechia, Rol in ES Spain, MY Malaysia and Rohaľ in SK Slovakia.

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●

roundel

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Roel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#41354,07047K rec.——Roel104
US United States—4,74931K rec.1 in 70K4.7KRoel236
BE Belgium#8362,1811.9K rec.—13Roel93
GB United Kingdom—1,5711.4K rec.——Roel51
ID Indonesia—1,2251.2K rec.——Roel30
CA Canada—1,2221.3K rec.—1Roel44
AL Albania#8071,160△103 rec.1 in 2.7K1.2KRoel17
UA Ukraine—958980 rec.——Rohal11
AU Australia—846866 rec.——Roel66
PE Peru—687731 rec.——Roel21
DE Germany—663831 rec.——Roel54
SG Singapore#974480507 rec.——Roel17

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

Languages●

  • English88K38%
  • Spanish61K26%
  • Dutch24K10%
  • Western Frisian18K8%
  • Indonesian6.6K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English88,14538%
Spanish60,64226%
Dutch23,75810%
Western Frisian18,1688%
Indonesian6,6143%

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◐

Roel is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name83K records spelled Roel9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Peru, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Roél, Roël, Ròel, Rôël, Röel

  • French given name3.5K records spelled Roel3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, France, Netherlands, United States

    Also written Roël, Roèl

  • a separate given name3.4K records spelled Roel3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, Canada, Belgium

    Also written Roël, Röel

  • Norwegian given name1.5K records spelled Roel6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, Philippines, Denmark, United States

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål

    Also written Roël

  • Khmer given name723 records spelled Roel2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, United States, Philippines, Belgium

    Also written Roël

  • Italian given name315 records spelled Roel2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, Philippines, United States, Belgium

    Also written Roël

  • Croatian given name237 records spelled Roel9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, United States, Philippines, Belgium

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Роел, Roël

36 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.

Over time●

02550751001940196019802000202083 · 2000

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Roel in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1926–2025
Yearrecords
19266
19305
19316
19325
19335
19348
19358
19369
19376
19387
194023
19418
194213
194314
194415
194514
194619
194724
194823
194930
195033
195123
195240
195339
195445
195535
195653
195742
195844
195955
196068
196156
196265
196342
196469
196566
196652
196761
196853
196976
197066
197168
197256
197370
197474
197577
197664
197761
197869
197958
198082
198174
198276
198376
198475
198555
198663
198767
198865
198965
199062
199150
199258
199367
199471
199563
199654
199758
199866
199975
200083
200159
200265
200368
200465
200558
200660
200767
200858
200954
201060
201166
201255
201349
201463
201540
201637
201750
201853
201937
202046
202141
202249
202360
202464
202554

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 96 years between 1926–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Roel Nusse, b. 1950Roel Dieltiens, b. 1957Roel Degamo, b. 1966Roel Reiné, b. 1969Roel Sterckx, b. 1969Roel Velasco, b. 1972Roel Vanderstukken, b. 1976VanVelzen, b. 1978Roel Brouwers, b. 1981Roel Braas, b. 1987

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 68 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Roel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—8.4K#460
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.7K#4,062
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—1.2K#413
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—801#5,388
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—801#5,384
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—782#864
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020631#37,855
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010609#36,695
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000523#39,560
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—443#18,977
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—284—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—194#8,198

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 · 333 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Roel?
We estimate roughly 6.5 thousand people bear Roel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Roel have the most bearers?
Roel is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled roel.
Where is Roel most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Roel is densest in Albania — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
How common is Roel compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Roel is the 413th most common given name of 462,140 given names recorded there.
Is Roel a male or female name?
Roel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Roel mean?
Recorded meaning: roundel
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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, “Roel” — the 413th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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