Geisler
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Gisel/Gisel- ('Geisel, Bürge; ggf
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡaɪsɫɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Geisler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 54K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 273K
- GLGreenland1 in 148
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 148 (inferred from the name graph)
6,185 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Greenland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Gisel/Gisel- ('Geisel, Bürge; ggf. auch Kriegsgefangener'); teils auch als Berufsname/Übername gedeutet.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Geisler 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.
6,185 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Geisler is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu einem germanischen Rufnamen; wohl von einer Kurzform mit gīsal- bzw. gisal- als Namenglied.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Patronymisch zu Rufname Gisela; mit ahd. gīsal ‚Geisel, Pfand‘. 5550 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)
- Johanna Geislerb. 1888DEGerman opera singer and actress (1888-1956)
- Hans-Ferdinand Geislerb. 1891DEGerman general
- Norman Geislerb. 1932USAmerican evangelical theologian (1932-2019)
- Ilse Geislerb. 1941DEEast German Luger
- Achim Geislerb. 1949DEGerman actor and voice actor
- Dagmar Geislerb. 1958DEGerman writer, cartoonist and illustrator (born 1958)
- Claudia Geisler-Badingb. 1966DEGerman actress
- Robert Geislerb. 1969CZCzech screenwriter
- Marco Geislerb. 1974DEGerman rower
- Baron Geislerb. 1982PHFilipino actor
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 36 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.2K | #5,622 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6K | #5,377 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.7K | #5,823 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 776 | #11,536 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 544 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 544 | #5,984 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 523 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 523 | #6,104 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 465 | #934 |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2018 | 393 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2021 | 388 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2019 | 388 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- How do you pronounce Geisler?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡaɪsɫɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Geisler mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Gisel/Gisel- ('Geisel, Bürge; ggf.
- In which country does Geisler have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.2 thousand people named Geisler, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled geisler.
- Where is Geisler most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Geisler is densest in Greenland — about 1 in 148 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Geisler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,185 people named Geisler in 2010, about 1 in 54 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/geislerThe 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, “Geisler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.