Kiršner
surname · Latin script
Kiršner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant of Kirchner.
- CZCzechia1 in 297K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 701K
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M
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)
- Sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 297K (inferred from the name graph)
190 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kirsner in US United States.
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)
- Kirche+(inferred from the name graph)via Kirchner
- Middle High Germankirche(inferred from the name graph)via Kirchner
- Old High Germankirihha(inferred from the name graph)via Kirchner
- Proto-West Germanic*kirikā(inferred from the name graph)via Kirchner
- Koine Greekκυριακόνkuriakón(inferred from the name graph)via Kirchner
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
variant of Kirchner.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kiršner 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 | 190 | 1 in 1.8M | 191 | Kirsner | 12 |
| CZ Czechia | 36 | 1 in 297K | 36 | Kiršner | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | — | — | — | Kiršner | 4 |
190 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 36 | #36,979 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kiršner mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Kirchner. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kiršner have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 190 people named Kiršner, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kirsner.
- Where is Kiršner most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kiršner is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 297 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kiršner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 190 people named Kiršner in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kir%C5%A1nerThe 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, “Kiršner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.