The Stengel surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,856 people carried this name — #8,534 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 76,300 people counted. That is up 25% from 3,077 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 415 people named Stengel.
15 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 25 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
136 people named Stengel live in Switzerland.
They live in 11 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where 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 Argentina’s national register
At least 61 people named Stengel live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
30 people named Stengel 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).
In print
Stengel in American newspapers,
1916–1922.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 32,462 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Stengel,
with a public archive behind them.
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Friedrich Joachim Stengel 1694–1787 · architect -
Adolf Stengel 1828–1900 · politician -
Emil Stengel d. 1905
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Carl Stengel 1581–1663 · writer
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Christian Ludwig Stengel 1765–1802 · jurist
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Rudolf von Stengel 1772–1828 · military personnel
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Stengel.
- Steis 158 · U.S. census
- Stell 2,292 · U.S. census
- Stella 4,053 · U.S. census
- Stelmach 940 · U.S. census
- Stemmer 515 · U.S. census
- Stempin 137 · U.S. census
- Stenger 4,601 · U.S. census
- Stentz 438 · U.S. census
- Stenzel 1,536 · U.S. census
- Stepanian 1,005 · U.S. census
- Stephan 7,840 · U.S. census
- Stephani 548 · U.S. census
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