Gaiser
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Probably from the town of Hofgeismar, Under Rhine district, and in the south of the river Kinzig, Upper Rhine district
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡeɪzɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gaiser is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 194K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 84K
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 Gaiser 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
- 230 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Probably from the town of Hofgeismar, Under Rhine district, and in the south of the river Kinzig, Upper Rhine district. Also from Gaissmar, Emmendingen area, Ihringen, Breisach, Ba- den 1809.
Sources 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gaiser 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 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Gaiser | 106 |
| US United States | 1,716 | 1 in 194K | 1.7K | Gaiser | 230 |
| SI Slovenia | 277as Gajser | 1 in 7.6K | 277 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 300K | — | Gaiser | 18 |
| IT Italy | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 299K | — | Gaiser | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 83 | 1 in 101K | 83 | Gaiser | 18 |
| SG Singapore | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Gaiser | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Gaiser | 18 |
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; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Gaiser 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, occupational name for a goatherd or a nickname for a capricious person, from an agent derivative of Middle High German geiz ‘goat’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, Berufsname zu Geiß/Gais 'Ziege'; wohl Ziegenhalter/-hirt. Bearer count: 3028.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Berufsname oder Wohnstättenname; wohl zu Geiß/Ziege, ggf. auch Patronym zu Rufnamen wie Gisbert. Bearer count: 346.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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)
- Fred Gaiserb. 1885USMajor League Baseball pitcher (1885-1918)
- Fritz Gaiserb. 1907DEGerman cross-country skier
- Otto Gaiserb. 1919DEGerman fighter ace and Knight's Cross recipient (1919–1944)
- Konrad Gaiserb. 1929DEGerman classical philologist (1929-1988)
- Dietmar Gaiserb. 1943DEGerman journalist
- Bernd Gaiserb. 1961DEbusiness consultant from Germany
- Adam Gaiserb. 1971USAmerican scholar of Islamic studies
- Jens Gaiserb. 1978DEGerman Nordic combined skier
- Marco Gaiserb. 1993DEGerman footballer
- Julia Marie Gaiserb. 2001ATItalian and Austrian figure skater
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)
Attested in 23 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,687 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,489 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,605 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 83 | #12,767 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 48 | #7,884 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- Where does the name Gaiser come from?
- Probably from the town of Hofgeismar, Under Rhine district, and in the south of the river Kinzig, Upper Rhine district. Also from Gaissmar, Emmendingen area, Ihringen, Breisach, Ba- den 1809. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- How do you pronounce Gaiser?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡeɪzɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Gaiser mean?
- Recorded meaning: Probably from the town of Hofgeismar, Under Rhine district, and in the south of the river Kinzig, Upper Rhine district.
- In which country does Gaiser have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Gaiser in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaiser.
- How common is the name Gaiser?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,716 people named Gaiser in 2010, about 1 in 194 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gaiserThe 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, “Gaiser”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.