Kesner
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kesner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant of Kastner.
- USUnited States1 in 168K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 55K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 58K
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
- 242 (measured from records)
- 1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
1,980 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Kastner.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kesner 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 | 1,980 | 1 in 168K | 2K | Kesner | 242 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 266K | — | Kesner | 48 |
| DE Germany | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 378K | — | Kesner | 26 |
| CZ Czechia | 195 | 1 in 55K | 195 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 755K | — | Kesner | 3 |
| HT Haiti | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 108K | listed | — | 2 |
| HR Croatia | 33 | 1 in 128K | 33 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 58K | 10 | — | 3 |
1,980 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Albert Kesnerb. 1898EEEstonian painter (1898-1965)
- Jillian Kesner-Graverb. 1949USAmerican actress (1949-2007)
- Delia Kesnerb. 1965ARArgentine computer scientist (1965-)
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 26 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,943 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,590 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,375 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 127 | #13,389 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 127 | #6,932 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 33 | #17,356 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 30 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 10 | #10,905 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 8 | #12,496 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Kesner mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Kastner. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kesner have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Kesner, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kesner.
- Where is Kesner most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kesner is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 55 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kesner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,980 people named Kesner in 2010, about 1 in 168 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kesnerThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kesner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.