Müll
surname · Latin script
Meaning: waste, garbage, rubbish, trash (A Frequency Dictionary of German)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Müll is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 9,377 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 22Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 22Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 35K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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
- 348 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
9,377 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mull in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 5 more and Muell in AI Anguilla.
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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)waste, garbage, rubbish, trash
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Müll is found
(measured from records)Müll 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 9,377 | 1 in 35K | 9.9K | Mull | 348 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Mull | 53 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Mull | 68 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Mull | 34 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Mull | 27 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Mull | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Mull | 2 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Mull | 9 |
| AI Anguilla | #192 | — | — | — | Muell | 1 |
9,377 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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)Müll is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, rubbish, refuse, waste, junk, trash (US), garbage (US)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cim, mule
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Arnold Müllb. 1906ROGerman train photographer and artist
- Gerhald Müllb. 1948DEGerman ice hockey 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Müll mean, and where does it come from?
- waste, garbage, rubbish, trash Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Müll?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.4 thousand people named Müll, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mull. After it come United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Müll?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,377 people named Müll in 2010, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
- How common is Müll compared with other names?
- In Anguilla, Müll is the 192nd most common surname of 7,424 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%BCllThe 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, “Müll” — ranked 3310th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.