Mandel

At the 2020 census, 6,483 Americans bore the surname Mandel — 5,204th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 46,100.

By the numbers

People: 6,483
Rank: 5,204th
How common: 1 in 46,100
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

Germanic surname (Dutch Mandel, German Mandel, Yiddish מאַנדל, all meaning "almond"). Also found in Slovene - as Mandelj.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Mandel described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.06%

Notable people called Mandel

Ernest Mandel (1923–1995)Belgian economist and Marxist philosopher
Howie Mandel (born 1955)Canadian comedian, television personality, screenwriter, actor, voice actor, producer, director, entrepreneur, game show host, author and podcaster
Johnny Mandel (1925–2020)American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz
Emily St. John Mandel (born 1979)Canadian writer
Georges Mandel (1885–1944)French Jewish politician, resistance fighter and art collector, murdered in the Holocaust
Julien Mandel (1893–1961)French photographer
Marvin Mandel (1920–2015)Governor of Maryland
Harvey Mandel (born 1945)American guitarist

People named Mandel with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Mandel

Also a first name

Mandel has been given to 583 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 1973. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.