Kühler

surname · Latin script

Meaning: cooler (anything that cools)

Kühler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 126K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 603Kas Kuehler
  • ATAustria≈1 in 219K

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 Kühler 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.

Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,500 named Kuehler, est.

Sources
163 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 126K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KuehlerLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kuehler in US United States, CD Congo - Kinshasa, ML Mali and Kuhler in AT Austria, PK Pakistan.

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)

cooler (anything that cools)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kühler 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 Kühler is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CD Congo - Kinshasa≈2,500 est.≈1 in 41K—Kuehler1
DE Germany≈640 est.≈1 in 126K—Kühler44
PK Pakistan≈610 est.≈1 in 381K—Kuhler1
US United States552as Kuehler1 in 603K580Kuehler163
ML Mali≈340 est.≈1 in 58K—Kuehler1
BR Brazil651 in 3.3M65——
AT Austria≈41 est.≈1 in 219K—Kuhler7
DK Denmark231 in 255K23——

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Kühler is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kuhler

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kuhler

  • Danish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark

    Also written Kuhler

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Kuhler

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Kuhler

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Kuhler

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Kuhler

9 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kühler is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Toponymischer Wohnstättenname; Konkurrenz mit ÜberN zu mhd. küele (mnd. kole) 'kühl, kalt, ruhig, gelassen' und mit HerkunftsN zu SiedlungsN wie Kühle (Westfalen) und Kühlen (Ostpreußen). 498 Tokens.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

  • In German, variant under Küh- / Kuhle; from a Germanic Rufname stem with -kühl/-kühle

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

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)

  • Ralf Kühlerb. 1967DEGerman television presenter and radio host

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 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Kühler
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—23#21,149

Reference works 3

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 Kühler mean, and where does it come from?
cooler (anything that cools) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Kühler?
In the etymology graph, Kühlen is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Kühler have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Kuehler in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Kühler?
In Brazil, the national register counted 65 people named Kühler, about 1 in 3.3 million 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, “Kühler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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