Bahler

Name: Bahler: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/baleɾ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated

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Bahler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Swiss German Bähler.

CHSwitzerland1 in 4.8K(measured from records)
DEGermany≈1 in 510Kfew records
USUnited States1 in 521K

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 Bahler 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.

: Switzerland (measured from records)
Record sources: 185 (measured from records)
: 1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Baehler

Locally spelled Bähler in CH Switzerland and Baehler in TD Chad.

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

Borrowed from Swiss German Bähler.

Cited for this meaning 1

Wiktionary

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Bahler 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.

Where Bahler is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
CH Switzerland	#808	1,735	1 in 4.8K	1.7K	Bähler	34
US United States	—	638	1 in 521K	670	Bahler	185
DE Germany	—	≈170 est.	≈1 in 507K	—	Bahler	37
GB United Kingdom	—	≈75 est.	≈1 in 929K	—	Bahler	19
CA Canada	—	≈66 est.	≈1 in 625K	—	Bahler	25
TD Chad	#118	≈28 est.	≈1 in 718K	—	Baehler	1

1,735 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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 2020; 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).

Other names spelled this way

Bahler is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Spanish surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Switzerland, Brazil
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Bähler
French surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, Switzerland, United States
Also written Bähler, Bâhler
Ukrainian surname9 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Ukraine, Poland, Russia, Switzerland
Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Polish
Also written Балер, Bähler, Baler
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Bähler
Arabic surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Egypt, United States
Also written Bähler
Hindi surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Switzerland
Also written Bähler
Norwegian surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Switzerland
Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish
Also written Bähler

26 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

John Bahlerb. 1940USAmerican vocalist, arranger, conductor, composer, and producer
Tom Bahlerb. 1943USAmerican singer, composer, songwriter, arranger, producer, and author
Liane Bahlerb. 1982DEGerman racing cyclist (1982–2007)
Jurg BahlerCHresearcher

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

FormalDear Bahler,

InformalHello,

Evidence

12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Bahler
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020	2020	670	#36,002
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010	2010	638	#35,294
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000	2000	602	#35,387
US United States	wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)	—	—	—

Reference works 2

Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bahler mean, and where does it come from?: Borrowed from Swiss German Bähler. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Bahler?: In Spanish /baleɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
In which country does Bahler have the most bearers?: In Switzerland, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Bahler, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bähler.
Where is Bahler most common?: Bahler is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.8 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Bahler?: In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,735 people named Bahler in 2024, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
How common is Bahler compared with other names?: In Switzerland, Bahler is the 808th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bahler

The 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 2026-10-13 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, “Bahler” — the 808th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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