Gerstle

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Gerstle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a field name, presumably denoting one in which barley was grown, or a metonymic occupational nickname for a farmer (see Gerst).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 953K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
  • FRFrance≈1 in 9.7M

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.

United States (measured from records)

349 people, 2010

Sources
51 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 953K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

from a field name, presumably denoting one in which barley was grown, or a metonymic occupational nickname for a farmer (see Gerst).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gerstle 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 Gerstle is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3491 in 953K349Gerstle13
FR France≈7 est.≈1 in 9.7M4Gerstle51
CH Switzerland31 in 2.8M3——
EE Estonia——listed—1

349 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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)

Gerstle is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gerstlé

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Sara Erlanger, b. 1860Rosalie Gerstle, b. 1862Frieda Gerstle, b. 1871Sofie Gerstle, b. 1871Julie Wertheim, b. 1873Selma Gerstle, b. 1874Frank Gerstle, b. 1915Kurt H. Gerstle, b. 1923Gary Gerstle, b. 1954Dirk Gerstle, b. 1961

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 10 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Gerstle
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EE EstoniaSiseministeerium — population register name list 20232023——

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Gerstle mean, and where does it come from?
from a field name, presumably denoting one in which barley was grown, or a metonymic occupational nickname for a farmer (see Gerst). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Gerstle have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 349 people named Gerstle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gerstle.
Where is Gerstle most common?
Gerstle is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 953 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Gerstle?
In the United States, the national register counted 349 people named Gerstle in 2010, about 1 in 953 thousand 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, “Gerstle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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