Revel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From a medieval nickname for someone full of noisy enthusiasm and energy, from Middle English revel ‘festivity, tumult’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʀəvəl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Revel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 222K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 255K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 242 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From a medieval nickname for someone full of noisy enthusiasm and energy, from Middle English revel ‘festivity, tumult’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Revel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 468 | Revel | 242 |
| US United States | 746 | 1 in 446K | 805 | Revel | 62 |
| IT Italy | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 222K | listed | Revel | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 339K | 172 | Revel | 12 |
| CA Canada | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 344K | 1 | Revel | 15 |
| CH Switzerland | 33 | 1 in 255K | 33 | Revel | 13 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Revel is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from OFr revel ‘pride, rebellion, sport’ (or Lat rebellus); first attested Paganus revellus 1130 P (Herts)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, An instance of merrymaking; a celebration.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, Joyfulness, entertainment, celebration, revelling.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, sexual
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)
- Gabriel Revelb. 1643FRFrench painter (1643-1712)
- Max Revelb. 1813FRFrench dramaturge
- Paul Toutainb. 1848FRnot in their usual nameFrench writer (1848–1925)
- Bernard Revelb. 1885USRussian-born American Orthodox rabbi and scholar (1885-1940)
- Harry Revelb. 1905GBBritish-American composer of musical theatre (1905-1958)
- Michel Revelb. 1938ILIsraeli biochemist
- Jacques Revelb. 1942FRFrench historian (1942-2026)
- Coralie Revelb. 1953FRFrench actress
- Nicolas Revelb. 1966FRFrench official
- Christophe Revelb. 1979FRfootballer
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)
Attested in 30 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 805 | #28,028 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 758 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 746 | #31,107 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 720 | #33,969 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 653 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 650 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 636 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 558 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 544 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 527 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 505 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 468 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- What does the name Revel mean, and where does it come from?
- From a medieval nickname for someone full of noisy enthusiasm and energy, from Middle English revel ‘festivity, tumult’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Revel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Revel in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled revel.
- How do you pronounce Revel?
- A machine transcription gives /ʀəvəl/ (IPA) for French.
- How common is the name Revel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 746 people named Revel in 2010, about 1 in 446 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/revelThe 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, “Revel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.