Kümmerle

surname · Latin script

Meaning: German surname from a personal characteristic: diminutive of 'Kummer' = grief, worry; denoting a troubled person or one who causes concern

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kümmerle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 81K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 2.3Mas Kuemmerle
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 646K

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 Kümmerle 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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈990 people, est.

Sources
92 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 81K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kuemmerle in US United States, GB United Kingdom, MA Morocco 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)

German surname from a personal characteristic: diminutive of 'Kummer' = grief, worry; denoting a troubled person or one who causes concern.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kümmerle 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 Kümmerle is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany≈990 est.≈1 in 81K—Kümmerle51
US United States143as Kuemmerle1 in 2.3M147Kuemmerle92
MA Morocco≈130 est.≈1 in 283K—Kuemmerle4
FR France≈20 est.≈1 in 3.4M4——
GB United Kingdom≈16 est.≈1 in 4.2M—Kuemmerle8
CH Switzerland131 in 646K13Kümmerle5
AT Austria≈4 est.≈1 in 2.1M—Kümmerle4
PA Panama≈2 est.≈1 in 1.7M—Kuemmerle1

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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Kümmerle is also recorded as 5 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 Kummerle

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Chile, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kummerle, Kummerlé

  • Croatian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Also written Kummerle

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Kummerle

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kummerle

8 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)

Kümmerle is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Diminutive surname from mhd. kumber/kummer ‘grief, burden’; personal-characteristic surname. 21+555 bearers.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

  • In German, 555+521; from 'Kummer'; diminutive/hypocoristic -le.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

  • In German, Familienname aus einem persönlichen Merkmal: ‚bekümmerter/verkümmerter Mensch‘; südwestdt. Diminutivform.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

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)

18001850190019502000Salomon Kümmerle, b. 1832Jenő Béla Kümmerle, b. 1876Fritz Kümmerle, b. 1917Werner Kümmerle, b. 1939Adolf Kümmerle, b. 1950Jan Kümmerle, b. 1975Michael Kümmerle, b. 1979

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.

Official registers attesting Kümmerle
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202413#50,156

Reference works 1

  • 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 Kümmerle mean, and where does it come from?
German surname from a personal characteristic: diminutive of 'Kummer' = grief, worry; denoting a troubled person or one who causes concern. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
In which country does Kümmerle have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 993 people named Kümmerle in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kümmerle.
How common is the name Kümmerle?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 13 people named Kümmerle in 2024, about 1 in 646 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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, “Kümmerle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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