Hässler
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hässler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Liechtenstein it is the 73rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: topographic name for someone who lived in a place where hazels grew, from Middle High German hasel ‘hazel’ -I- the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.
- DEGermany≈1 in 37K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 74K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 87K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 308 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Liechtenstein, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hassler in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 5 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)
topographic name for someone who lived in a place where hazels grew, from Middle High German hasel ‘hazel’ -I- the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hässler 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Hassler | 3 |
| US United States | — | 4,499 | 1 in 74K | 4.5K | Hassler | 308 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Hassler | 107 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 275K | — | Hassler | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Hassler | 43 |
| AT Austria | #991 | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Hassler | 52 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 552 | 1 in 15K | 552 | Hassler | 41 |
| LI Liechtenstein | #73 | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 56 | Hassler | 9 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Uwe Hässlerb. 1938DEGerman painter and sculptor
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.
Reference works 2
- 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 Hässler mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived in a place where hazels grew, from Middle High German hasel ‘hazel’ -I- the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Hässler have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.8 thousand people named Hässler in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hassler.
- How common is the name Hässler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,499 people named Hässler in 2010, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
- How common is Hässler compared with other names?
- In Liechtenstein, Hässler is the 73rd most common surname of 283 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A4sslerThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Hässler” — the 73rd most common surname in Liechtenstein. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.