Strobel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Personenname aus einem persönlichen Merkmal: zu 'strub/struppig' bzw (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Strobel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Strobel is also written สโตรเบล in Thai.
- DEGermany≈1 in 5K(inferred from the name graph)
- AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 13Kfew records
- CHSwitzerland1 in 27K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Strobel 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 340 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Strobel in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Stroebel in ZA South Africa.
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)Personenname aus einem persönlichen Merkmal: zu 'strub/struppig' bzw. 'strobel' = borstiges, zerzaustes Haar; kein Berufsname.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Strobel is found
(measured from records)Strobel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #369 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Strobel | 183 |
| US United States | — | 6,097 | 1 in 55K | 6.1K | Strobel | 340 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Stroebel | 53 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 94K | 82 | Strobel | 58 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Strobel | 54 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 308 | 1 in 27K | 308 | Strobel | 23 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Strobel | 44 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #332 | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Strobel | 1 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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)Strobel is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, nach persönlichem Merkmal: aus mhd. strūp/strūben 'struppig, rau emporstehend'.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Übername nach persönlichem Merkmal: struppiges/struppiges Haar, „der Strubbelige“; 12594 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Familienname aus Personenmerkmal: strubbeliges/borstiges Haar; 8780 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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)- Käte Strobelb. 1907DEGerman politician (1907–1996)
- Al Strobelb. 1940USAmerican actor (1940–2022)
- Lee Strobelb. 1952USAmerican writer
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Strobel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Personenname aus einem persönlichen Merkmal: zu 'strub/struppig' bzw.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Strobel?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Strobel in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled strobel. After it come United States, South Africa, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Strobel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,097 people named Strobel in 2010, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
- How common is Strobel compared with other names?
- In Germany, Strobel is the 369th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/strobelThe 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, “Strobel” — the 369th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.