Bichler
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bichler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Bichler.
- DEGermany≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
- ILIsrael1 in 26Kas ביכלר
- USUnited States1 in 162Kas Buechler
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 Bichler itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 242 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Büchler in DE Germany, CH Switzerland, AT Austria, ביכלר in IL Israel, RO Romania, Buechler in US United States and Buchler in ZA South Africa.
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 Bichler.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bichler 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Büchler | 81 |
| US United States | — | 2,048as Buechler | 1 in 162K | 2K | Buechler | 242 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Büchler | 20 |
| CH Switzerland | #636 | 1,829as Büchler | 1 in 4.6K | 1.8K | Büchler | 31 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Buchler | 18 |
| IL Israel | — | 329as ביכלר | 1 in 26K | 329 | ביכלר | 20 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | ביכלר | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 96 | 1 in 2.2M | 96 | — | 2 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
- Heinrich Bichlerb. 1466CHSwiss artist (1466-1484)
- Karl Bichlerb. 1873ATAustrian politician (1873-1931)
- Georg Bichlerb. 1881DEGerman politician (1881-1967)
- Hans Bichlerb. 1904ATAustrian architect
- Antonín Bichlerb. 1920CZCzechoslovak member of Czechoslovak parliament, member of Czechoslovak national parliament and Czechoslovak politician
- Heide Bichlerb. 1936DEGerman badminton player
- Reinhold Bichlerb. 1947ATAustrian historian
- Nadine Bichlerb. 1968LU(1968-2017)
- Andreas Bichlerb. 1983DEGerman actor
- Marian Bichlerfilm editor
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 23 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 691 | #35,148 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 682 | #33,450 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 672 | #32,302 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 96 | #65,319 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 50 | #18,641 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Bichler mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Bichler. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Bichler have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Bichler in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled büchler.
- How common is the name Bichler?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 96 people named Bichler, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
- How common is Bichler compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Bichler is the 636th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bichler?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bichlerThe 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, “Bichler” — the 636th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.