Hasler
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from Haselour (Staffordshire) or Haselor (Warwickshire, Worcestershire); first attested Robert de Heselhour’, de Haselore 1221 AssWa, 1287 AssSt
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhæsəɫɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hasler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country. In Liechtenstein it is the 10th most common surname.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 40K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 57K
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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 244 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 937 (inferred from the name graph)
4,412 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Liechtenstein, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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 Hasel 'hazel'; one from a hazel place
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hasler is read(measured from records)
Hasler is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English64%
from Haselour (Staffordshire) or Haselor (Warwickshire, Worcestershire); first attested Robert de Heselhour’, de Haselore 1221 AssWa, 1287 AssSt
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- German19%
from Hasel 'hazel'; one from a hazel place
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hasler 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #130 | 4,412 | 1 in 1.9K | 4.4K | Hasler | 77 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Hasler | 88 |
| US United States | — | 1,884 | 1 in 177K | 1.9K | Hasler | 244 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 91K | listed | Hasler | 109 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Hasler | 47 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Hasler | 77 |
| LI Liechtenstein | #10 | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 937 | 405 | Hasler | 25 |
4,412 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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); the bbc-pronouncing-dictionary-british-names register; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hasler is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
habitational name from Haselour in Staffordshire or Haselor in Warwickshire and Worcestershire, named with Old English hcesel ‘hazel’ -I- ofer ‘hill’, ‘ridge’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
topographic name from Middle English hasel. Middle High German hasel + the English and German agent suffix -er.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Danish, indefinite plural of hassel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, hustler
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Arthur D. Haslerb. 1908USAmerican ecologist
- Joachim Haslerb. 1929DEGerman director and cinematographer (1929–1995)
- Otmar Haslerb. 1953LIPrime Minister of Liechtenstein
- Rainer Haslerb. 1958LILiechtenstein footballer (1958–2014)
- Adrian Haslerb. 1964LIpolitician from Liechtenstein
- John Haslerb. 1974GBBritish actor
- Daniel Haslerb. 1974LILiechtenstein footballer (born 1974)
- Dominique Haslerb. 1978LILiechtenstein politician
- David Haslerb. 1990LILiechtensteiner footballer
- Nicolas Haslerb. 1991LILiechtensteiner association 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 28 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4.4K | #133 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,533 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,293 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,041 |
| LI Liechtenstein | Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames) | 2020 | 405 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Hasler come from?
- from Hasel 'hazel'; one from a hazel place Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Hasler?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhæsəɫɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Hasler mean?
- In English, from Haselour (Staffordshire) or Haselor (Warwickshire, Worcestershire); first attested Robert de Heselhour’, de Haselore 1221 AssWa, 1287 AssSt
- In which country does Hasler have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Hasler, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hasler.
- How common is the name Hasler?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 4,412 people named Hasler in 2024, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Hasler compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Hasler is the 130th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/haslerThe 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, “Hasler” — the 130th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.