Kindlé
surname · Latin script
Kindlé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English kindlen, from Old Norse kynda (“to inflame”), from Proto-Germanic *kundijaną.
- USUnited States1 in 81K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 114K
- NONorway1 in 547K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- 1 in 81K (inferred from the name graph)
4,109 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kindle in US United States, FR France.
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)- Middle Englishkindlen(measured from records)
- Old Norsekynda“to inflame”(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*kundijaną(measured from records)
From Middle English kindlen, from Old Norse kynda (“to inflame”), from Proto-Germanic *kundijaną.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kindlé 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 | 4,109 | 1 in 81K | 4.1K | Kindle | 24 |
| CH Switzerland | 74 | 1 in 114K | 74 | — | 3 |
| NO Norway | 10 | 1 in 547K | 10 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 26M | 4 | Kindle | 47 |
| LI Liechtenstein | — | — | 312 | — | — |
4,109 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 Kindlé mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English kindlen, from Old Norse kynda (“to inflame”), from Proto-Germanic *kundijaną. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- In which country does Kindlé have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Kindlé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kindle.
- Where is Kindlé most common?
- Kindlé is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 81 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kindlé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,109 people named Kindlé in 2010, about 1 in 81 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kindl%C3%A9The 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, “Kindlé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.