Öhler
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Öhler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Ohler or Öhler.
- DEGermany≈1 in 57K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 137K
- NONorway1 in 911K
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 Öhler itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 238 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
2,420 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ohler in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 2 more and Oehler in DE Germany, CH Switzerland.
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)Borrowed from German Ohler or Öhler.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Öhler 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 | 2,420 | 1 in 137K | 2.4K | Ohler | 238 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Oehler | 121 |
| CH Switzerland | 633as Oehler | 1 in 13K | 633 | Oehler | 41 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 215K | 24 | Ohler | 18 |
| CA Canada | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Ohler | 42 |
| AT Austria | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Ohler | 30 |
| UY Uruguay | 52as Oehler | 1 in 65K | 52 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Ohler | 2 |
2,420 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)- Dezider Öhlerb. 1896stomatologist
- Markus Öhlerb. 1967ATAustrian university teacher
- Thomas Öhlerb. 1983ATAustrian cyclist
- Peter Öhlerb. 1992DEGerman amateur wrestler
- Elisabeth ÖhlerDEGerman politician
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Öhler mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Ohler or Öhler. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Öhler have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Öhler, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ohler.
- How common is the name Öhler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,420 people named Öhler in 2010, about 1 in 137 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Öhler?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B6hlerThe 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, “Öhler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.