Gänsler

surname · Latin script

Meaning: s/ss/ß-Variation nach Konsonant im Dental-Kontext; Belege 12+75+162

Gänsler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 3M(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 226K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 262K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈310 people, est.

Sources
118 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 226K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gansler in US United States, GB United Kingdom, IE Ireland and 1 more.

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)

recorded in German

s/ss/ß-Variation nach Konsonant im Dental-Kontext; Belege 12+75+162.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gänsler 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.

Where Gänsler is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany≈310 est.≈1 in 262K—Gänsler50
US United States1121 in 3M129Gansler118
GB United Kingdom≈63 est.≈1 in 1M—Gansler36
GH Ghana≈62 est.≈1 in 475K—Gansler1
CZ Czechia281 in 382K28——
DK Denmark261 in 226K26——
IE Ireland≈10 est.≈1 in 500K—Gansler1

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gänsler is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Czech surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia

    Also written Gansler

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gansler

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gansler

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gansler

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Gansler

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gansler

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gänsler 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, n-Schwund-Form; zu Gans mit -er/-ler-Erweiterung.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

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)

1850190019502000Franziska Gänsler, b. 1866Gisela Gänsler, b. 1891Katrin Gänsler, b. 1978

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Gänsler
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—28#43,292

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

What does the name Gänsler mean?
Recorded meaning: s/ss/ß-Variation nach Konsonant im Dental-Kontext; Belege 12+75+162.
In which country does Gänsler have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 306 people named Gänsler in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gänsler.
Where is Gänsler most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gänsler is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 226 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Gänsler?
In the United States, the national register counted 112 people named Gänsler in 2010, about 1 in 3.0 million residents.

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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, “Gänsler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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