Gawel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of a Germanic personal name formed with gawi ‘country’, ‘fertile region’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɡavɛl/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated
Gawel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 91K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 333K
- FIFinland1 in 398K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 88 (measured from records)
- 1 in 91K (inferred from the name graph)
998 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a pet form of a Germanic personal name formed with gawi ‘country’, ‘fertile region’. Compare Gau.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gawel 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.
998 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Gawel 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.
from a personal name (Latin Gallus) which was widespread in Europe during the Middle Ages (see Gall 2).
as a nameDictionary of American Family 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)- Erik Gawelb. 1963DEGerman economist
- Marta Gawelb. 1981PLPolish association football player
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)Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #24,826 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 998 | #24,914 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 943 | #24,784 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 60 | #23,356 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 37 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 37 | #61,118 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 34 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 34 | #64,074 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 31 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 19 | #26,401 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 14 | #43,104 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 13 | #33,836 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Gawel come from?
- from a pet form of a Germanic personal name formed with gawi ‘country’, ‘fertile region’. Compare Gau. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gawel?
- In Polish /ɡavɛl/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Gawel mean?
- Recorded meaning: from a pet form of a Germanic personal name formed with gawi ‘country’, ‘fertile region’.
- In which country does Gawel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 998 people named Gawel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gawel.
- Where is Gawel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gawel is densest in Norway — about 1 in 91 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gawel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 998 people named Gawel in 2010, about 1 in 333 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gawelThe 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, “Gawel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.