Geißler
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymisch zu Rufname Gisela; mit ahd
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡaɪ̯slɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Geißler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 8.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 136Kas Geissler
- ATAustria≈1 in 54K
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 Geißler itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 165 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Geissler in US United States, AT Austria, CH Switzerland.
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)
Patronymisch zu Rufname Gisela; mit ahd. gīsal ‚Geisel, Pfand‘. 7085 Belege.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Geißler 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 | #374 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | listed | Geißler | 139 |
| US United States | — | 2,449as Geissler | 1 in 136K | 2.4K | Geissler | 165 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 277as Geissler | 1 in 30K | 277 | Geissler | 37 |
| BR Brazil | — | 258as Geissler | 1 in 821K | 258 | — | — |
| AT Austria | #981 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Geissler | 54 |
| FI Finland | — | 54as Geissler | 1 in 103K | 54 | — | — |
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: the dfa-band-6 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Geißler 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, meist patronymisch zu Giselher; teils auch zu geizer/geisel erklärt
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)
- Heinrich Geisslerb. 1814DEnot in their usual namephysicist (1814–1879)
- Siegfried Geißlerb. 1929DEGerman conductor, composer and politician (1929-2014)
- Heiner Geißlerb. 1930DEGerman politician (1930-2017)
- Renate Geißlerb. 1940DEGerman actress
- Dieter Geißlerb. 1943DEGerman politician
- Thorsten Geißlerb. 1959DEGerman politician
- Ines Geisslerb. 1963DEnot in their usual nameEast German swimmer
- Heike Geißlerb. 1977DEGerman author
- Johanna Geißlerb. 1981DEGerman actress
- Tom Geißlerb. 1983DEGerman footballer
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)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 12 | #53,184 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 6 | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Geißler?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡaɪ̯slɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Geißler mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronymisch zu Rufname Gisela; mit ahd.
- In which country does Geißler have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.7 thousand people named Geißler in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled geißler.
- How common is the name Geißler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,449 people named Geissler in 2010, about 1 in 136 thousand residents.
- How common is Geißler compared with other names?
- In Germany, Geißler is the 374th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gei%C3%9FlerThe 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, “Geißler” — the 374th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.