Ashbel
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Derivation disputed; possibly 'man of Baal', 'fire of Bel', or 'opinion of God' (Biblical Names Compiled Database)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/asβel/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Ashbel is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Ashbel is also written Ашбель in Cyrillic.
- RURussia≈1 in 8.8Mfew recordsas Ашбель(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 9.3Mfew recordsas Ашбель
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ashbel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 39 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.8M (inferred from the name graph)
≈16 named Ашбель, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Russia, est., as Ашбель
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Ashbel in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ашбель in RU Russia, UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Ashbel
- Spanish:/asβel/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/aʃbɛl/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Derivation disputed; possibly 'man of Baal', 'fire of Bel', or 'opinion of God'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Where the surname Ashbel is found
(measured from records)Ashbel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 8.8M | — | Ашбель | 39 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 9.3M | — | Ашбель | 6 |
| US United States | — | — | 6 | — | 5 |
| GY Guyana | — | — | 3 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | — | 2 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ashbel 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 English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ashbel P. Willardb. 1820USAmerican politician (1820-1860)
- Ashbel P. Fitchb. 1848USAmerican politician (1848–1904)
- Ashbel Green Gulliverb. 1897USAmerican legal academic (1897-1974)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ashbel mean, and where does it come from?
- Derivation disputed; possibly 'man of Baal', 'fire of Bel', or 'opinion of God'. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Ashbel?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /asβel/; in Portuguese /aʃbɛl/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Ashbel a male or female name?
- Ashbel 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ashbel?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 people named Ашбель in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ukraine; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ashbel?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 people in Russia have Ашбель as their first surname, about 1 in 8.8 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Ashbel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ashbelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Ashbel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.