Hesler
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhɛsəɫɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hesler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant of Hasler 1.
- NONorway1 in 171K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 386K
- ARArgentina1 in 1.1M
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
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 171K (inferred from the name graph)
862 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Hasler 1.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hesler 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.
862 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Georg Heslerb. 1427DEGerman cardinal
- Alexander Hesslerb. 1823USnot in their usual nameAmerican photographer (1823–1895)
- Lexemuel Ray Heslerb. 1888USAmerican mycologist (1888-1977)
- Nicole Duval Heslerb. 1945CACanadian judge
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,745 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,558 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 862 | #27,845 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 45 | #112,812 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 42 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 32 | #34,374 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 14 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 14 | #110,356 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 12 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 12 | #120,343 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #78,802 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Hesler mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Hasler 1. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hesler?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɛsəɫɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hesler have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 862 people named Hesler, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hesler.
- Where is Hesler most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hesler is densest in Norway — about 1 in 171 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hesler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 862 people named Hesler in 2010, about 1 in 386 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/heslerThe 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, “Hesler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.