Dahler

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Toponymic surname: inhabitant from the valley/place 'Dahl/Thal'; bearer count 221

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Dahler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 150K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 647K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 6.7K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈19,000 people, est.

Sources
150 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 6.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Dähler in 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)

Toponymic surname: inhabitant from the valley/place 'Dahl/Thal'; bearer count 221.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dahler 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 Dahler is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈19,000 est.≈1 in 75K—Dahler2
CH Switzerland#8901,2551 in 6.7K1.3KDähler28
DE Germany—≈530 est.≈1 in 150KlistedDahler65
US United States—5141 in 647K514Dahler150
NO Norway—2801 in 20K280Dahler9
NL Netherlands—921 in 188K92Dahler12

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); the dfa-band-4 register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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(inferred from the name graph)

Dahler is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Norwegian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Switzerland, Denmark

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Dähler

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Switzerland, United States

    Also written Dähler

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, Argentina, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Dähler

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Dähler

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, United States

    Also written Dähler

  • Polish name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Dähler

24 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Dahler is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Toponymic surname from a place name/landscape feature for a valley or hollow; bearers: 221.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

  • In German, Toponymic surname from a landscape feature/place in a valley; built to Dahl/Thal + -er.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

  • In German, from the place name Dahl

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Johann Georg Dahler, b. 1760Christen Borgersen Dahler, b. 1796Hans Borgersen Dahler, b. 1803P.F.Dahler, b. 1883Ed Dahler, b. 1926Ludwig Dahler, b. 1957Oliver Dahler, b. 1969Wolfgang Dahler, b. 1975Maline Dahler, b. 1989

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 16 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Dahler
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010514#42,237
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020489#46,865
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000463#43,875
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—280#5,508
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200792#20,252
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202415#45,119
DE GermanyDeutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 4———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Dahler mean, and where does it come from?
Toponymic surname: inhabitant from the valley/place 'Dahl/Thal'; bearer count 221. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
In which country does Dahler have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Dahler in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dahler.
Where is Dahler most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dahler is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 6.7 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Dahler?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,255 people named Dahler in 2024, about 1 in 6.7 thousand residents.
How common is Dahler compared with other names?
In Switzerland, Dahler is the 890th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Dahler” — the 890th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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