Késsler
surname · Latin script
Késsler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Kessler, Keßler (“kettler, kettle-smith, tinker”).
- USUnited States1 in 11K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 28K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
29,064 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kessler in US United States, AR Argentina, CH Switzerland 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)
Borrowed from German Kessler, Keßler (“kettler, kettle-smith, tinker”).
Sources 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Késsler 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 29,064 | 1 in 11K | 29K | Kessler | 137 |
| CH Switzerland | 3,521 | 1 in 2.4K | 3.5K | Kessler | 22 |
| AR Argentina | 1,653 | 1 in 28K | 1.7K | Kessler | 54 |
| PL Poland | 294 | 1 in 130K | 160 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 211 | 1 in 82K | 211 | — | 5 |
| BE Belgium | 170 | 1 in 69K | 170 | Kessler | 8 |
| UY Uruguay | 51 | 1 in 66K | 51 | — | 8 |
29,064 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Késsler mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Kessler, Keßler (“kettler, kettle-smith, tinker”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Késsler have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Késsler, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kessler.
- Where is Késsler most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Késsler is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 2.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Késsler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 29,064 people named Késsler in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%A9sslerThe 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, “Késsler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.