Kaeppeler
surname · Latin script
Kaeppeler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 177Kas Kappeler(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 978Kas Kappeler
- CHSwitzerland1 in 4.7Kas Kappeler
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 Kaeppeler 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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
1,785 named Kappeler, 2024
Highest-authority source
Switzerland, as Kappeler
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kappeler in US United States, CH Switzerland, DE Germany and 3 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaeppeler 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #589 | 1,785as Kappeler | 1 in 4.7K | 1.8K | Kappeler | 62 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 177K | — | Kappeler | 50 |
| US United States | — | 340as Kappeler | 1 in 978K | 340 | Kappeler | 121 |
| AR Argentina | — | 96as Kappeler | 1 in 474K | 96 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Kappeler | 10 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Kappeler | 12 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 375K | — | Kappeler | 1 |
1,785 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
- Laura Kaeppelerb. 1988USMiss America 2012
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Kaeppeler have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Kappeler, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kaeppeler most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Kaeppeler itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Switzerland's: the national register counts about 1 in 4.7 thousand people named Kappeler.
- How common is the name Kaeppeler?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,785 people named Kappeler in 2024, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Kaeppeler compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Kaeppeler is the 589th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kaeppeler?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaeppelerThe 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, “Kaeppeler” — the 589th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.