Heisler
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic: from a house/dwelling designation (small habitation); 1138 bearers
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈhaɪsəɫɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Heisler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 30Kas הייזלר(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 60K
- BRBrazil1 in 379K
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 Heisler 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)
5,539 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled הייזלר in IL Israel, HU Hungary.
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: from a house/dwelling designation (small habitation); 1138 bearers.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where in the world
(measured from records)Heisler 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 5,539 | 1 in 60K | 5.5K | Heisler | 33 |
| CH Switzerland | 1,377as Häusler | 1 in 6.1K | 1.4K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 558 | 1 in 379K | 558 | — | 2 |
| IL Israel | 294as הייזלר | 1 in 30K | 294 | הייזלר | 16 |
| CZ Czechia | 147as Häusler | 1 in 73K | 147 | — | — |
| HU Hungary | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | הייזלר | 3 |
5,539 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)Heisler 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, Toponymic surname from SiedlungsN Heisel (Holstein); variants Hei(ss/ß)ler, Heisler, Heusler. Heisler is spread across Germany; Heissler concentrated in Nordbaden.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, variant of Hausler (see Hausler).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)- Elfriede Heislerb. 1889DEGerman actress (1885–1919)
- Stuart Heislerb. 1896USAmerican film and television director (1896–1979)
- Jindřich Heislerb. 1914CZCzech photographer, writer and artist (1914-1953)
- Fritz Heislerb. 1915USAmerican football player and coach (1915-1983)
- Gerhard Heislerb. 1941DEGerman photographer
- Gregory Heislerb. 1954USAmerican academic (Syracuse University – Newhouse)
- Randy Heislerb. 1961USdiscus thrower
- Charlene Heislerb. 1961CACanadian astronomer
- Todd Heislerb. 1972USAmerican photographer
- Martin Heislerb. 1977DEGerman film producer
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.5K | #6,176 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.5K | #5,785 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.1K | #6,377 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 558 | #15,421 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 27 | #44,897 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 27 | #13,888 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 11 | #56,728 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
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 Heisler mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic: from a house/dwelling designation (small habitation); 1138 bearers. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Heisler?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhaɪsəɫɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Heisler have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.5 thousand people named Heisler, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heisler.
- Where is Heisler most common?
- Heisler is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 60 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Heisler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,539 people named Heisler in 2010, about 1 in 60 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/heislerThe 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, “Heisler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.