The Nobel surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 788 people carried this name — #29,822 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 370,400 people counted. That is down 6% from 838 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Nobel surname
A surname from Swedish, especially referring to Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and philanthropist.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Nobel» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
311 people named Nobel live in Switzerland.
They live in 17 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in St. Gallen.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 65 people named Nobel.
8 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 15 départements, most often Haut-Rhin.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
163 people named Nobel is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Nobel,
with a public archive behind them.
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Hendrik Nobel 1568–1649 -
Hans Nobel 1657–1732 · civil servant -
Immanuel Nobel 1801–1872 · architect -
Immanuel Nobel 1801–1872 · architect
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Emilius Ferdinand Nobel 1810–1892 · factory owner -
Hans Nobel 1684–1752 · amtmann
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Nobel.
When the index is not enough
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