Heisler
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic: from a house/dwelling designation (small habitation); 1138 bearers (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Heisler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 5,539 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Heisler is also written הייזלר in Hebrew.
- USUnited States1 in 60K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 379K
- ARArgentina1 in 2.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Heisler itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. 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
Heisler in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)Locally spelled הייזלר in IL Israel.
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 the surname Heisler is found
(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 | — | — |
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)- Stuart Heislerb. 1896USAmerican film and television director (1896–1979)
- Gregory Heislerb. 1954USAmerican academic (Syracuse University – Newhouse)
- 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.
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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Heisler?
- 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. After it come Switzerland, Brazil, Israel and Czechia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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” — ranked 5785th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.