Bertels
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbɝtəɫz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bertels is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 5.1K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 59K
- USUnited States1 in 815K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
2,320 people, 2008
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type. Bearer count: 64.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bertels 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 2,320 | 1 in 5.1K | 2.3K | Bertels | 2 |
| US United States | 408 | 1 in 815K | 462 | Bertels | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | 295 | 1 in 59K | 295 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 29 | 1 in 7.3M | 29 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 18 | 1 in 2.8M | 18 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 7 | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | — | 1 |
2,320 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Bertels 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 German, Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Bertel, Kurzform zu Bertram/Berthold; starke Genitivform.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)
- Arved Bertelsb. 1862DEGerman medical researcher (1862-1918)
- Kurt Alexander Bertelsb. 1877LV(1877-1910)
- Evgenii Eduardovich Bertelsb. 1890RUSoviet-Russian orientalist (1890-1957)
- Eddy Bertelsb. 1932BEBelgian association football player (1932–2011)
- Kees Bertelsb. 1939NLDutch philosopher
- Jan Bertelsb. 1968BEFlemish politician
- Tiny Bertelsb. 1972BEBelgian actress and singer
- Franziska Bertelsb. 1986DEGerman bobsledder
- Stefanie Bertelsb. 1987BEbadminton player
- Kurt Bertelsb. 1989Belgian musicologist
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 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2.3K | #402 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 2.2K | #427 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 462 | #49,237 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 408 | #51,066 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 372 | #52,403 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 295 | #7,021 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 29 | #152,390 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 18 | #88,854 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Bertels come from?
- Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type. Bearer count: 64. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- How do you pronounce Bertels?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɝtəɫz/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Bertels mean?
- Recorded meaning: Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type.
- In which country does Bertels have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Bertels, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bertels.
- Where is Bertels most common?
- Bertels is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bertels?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 2,320 people named Bertels in 2008, about 1 in 5.1 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bertelsThe 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, “Bertels”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.