Geyser
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A boiling natural spring which throws forth jets of water, mud, etc., at frequent intervals, driven upwards by the expansive power of steam
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡajzə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Geyser is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- ZASouth Africa
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A boiling natural spring which throws forth jets of water, mud, etc., at frequent intervals, driven upwards by the expansive power of steam.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
Geyser is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Le mot nous vient de l’islandais (qui signifie « jaillisseur ») par l’intermédiaire de l’anglais. Il désignait, au départ, le nom propre d’un geyser appelé Geysir.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
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)
- Christian Gottlieb Geyserb. 1742DEGerman painter (1742-1803)
- Wilhelmine Geyserb. 1755DEgraphic artist (1755-1813)
- Gottlieb Wilhelm Geyserb. 1789DEGerman painter and illustrator (1789–1865)
- Paul Geyserb. 1824DEGerman author (1824-1882)
- Joseph Geyserb. 1869DEGerman philosopher (1869-1948)
- Albert Geyserb. 1918ZASouth African cleric and theologian (1918-1985)
- Rika Geyserb. 1978ZASouth African rower
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 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 203 | #96,193 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 177 | #95,567 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 127 | #133,048 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9 | #126,713 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Geyser mean, and where does it come from?
- A boiling natural spring which throws forth jets of water, mud, etc., at frequent intervals, driven upwards by the expansive power of steam. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Geyser?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡajzə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Geyser have the most bearers?
- Geyser is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/geyserThe 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, “Geyser”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.