Bächler
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Bach or Bächle
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Bächler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Austria than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 5.5K(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 5.7Kfew records
- DEGermany≈1 in 190K
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 Bächler 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.
- Austria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
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 Bachler in US United States, DE Germany, AT Austria and 3 more and Baechler in CH Switzerland, FR France.
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)from Bach or Bächle
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bächler 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | #559 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Bachler | 74 |
| CH Switzerland | #394 | 1,526 | 1 in 5.5K | 1.5K | Baechler | 52 |
| US United States | — | 490 | 1 in 679K | 490 | Bachler | 162 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 185K | — | Bachler | 61 |
| FR France | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 176K | 41 | Baechler | 132 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Bachler | 4 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | #965 | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Bachler | 1 |
| GD Grenada | #414 | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Bachler | 1 |
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); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)- Emil Bächlerb. 1868CHSwiss naturalist and conservator (1868-1950)
- Hans Bächlerb. 1924CHSwiss politician (1924-2012)
- Wolfgang Bächlerb. 1925DEGerman actor and writer (1925-2007)
- Hagen Bächlerb. 1931DEart historian
- Stefan Bächlerb. 1967CHSwiss illustrator
- Magnus Bächlerb. 2002DKDanish cyclist
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.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bächler mean, and where does it come from?
- from Bach or Bächle Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Bächler have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Bächler in Austria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bachler.
- Where is Bächler most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bächler is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 5.5 thousand people — even though Austria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bächler?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,526 people named Bächler in 2024, about 1 in 5.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Bächler compared with other names?
- In Austria, Bächler is the 559th most common surname of 127,275 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/b%C3%A4chlerThe 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, “Bächler” — the 559th most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.