Kasër
surname · Latin script
Kasër is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 1.(also Kaser) occupational name for a cheese maker or a cheese merchant, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kcese ‘cheese’. 2.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1K(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 19Kfew records
- DEGermany≈1 in 38K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 235 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
3,975 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kaser in US United States, CH Switzerland, AT Austria and 1 more and Käser in DE Germany.
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)1.(also Kaser) occupational name for a cheese maker or a cheese merchant, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kcese ‘cheese’. 2. topographic name for someone who lived by a summer dairy in the Alps, from a Tyrolean dialect word derived from Ladin casura.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kasër is found
(measured from records)Kasër 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #341 | 3,975 | 1 in 2.1K | 4K | Kaser | 42 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Käser | 73 |
| US United States | — | 1,696 | 1 in 196K | 1.9K | Kaser | 235 |
| IN India | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 1 | Kaser | 17 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Kaser | 35 |
| HR Croatia | — | 21 | 1 in 201K | 21 | — | — |
3,975 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024, counting the spelling käser. 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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 Kasër mean, and where does it come from?
- 1.(also Kaser) occupational name for a cheese maker or a cheese merchant, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kcese ‘cheese’. 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kasër?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Kasër, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaser. After it come Germany, United States, India and Austria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kasër most common?
- Kasër is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kasër?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 3,975 people named Kasër in 2024, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Kasër compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Kasër is the 341st most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Kasër” — the 341st most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.