Kaerner
surname · Latin script
Kaerner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Austria than in any other country, where it is the 92nd most common surname.
- ATAustria≈1 in 2.3Kas Karner(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 81Kas Karner
- USUnited States1 in 336Kas Karner
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 Kaerner 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.
- Austria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 198 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,900 named Karner, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, est., as Karner
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Karner in US United States, AT Austria, DE Germany and 3 more and Kärner in EE Estonia.
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)
Kaerner 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | #92 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Karner | 105 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Karner | 84 |
| US United States | — | 989as Karner | 1 in 336K | 1K | Karner | 198 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 220as Karner | 1 in 9.6K | 220 | Karner | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 351K | — | Karner | 34 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 84as Karner | 1 in 100K | 84 | Karner | 15 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 25 | Kärner | 9 |
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 2020; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Theodor Kärnerb. 1884DEGerman university teacher (1884-1966)
- Jaan Kärnerb. 1891EEEstonian writer and politician (1891–1958)
- Kaja Kärnerb. 1920EEEstonian artist (1920-1998)
- Hillar Kärnerb. 1935EEEstonian chess player (1935–2017)
- Jüri Kärnerb. 1940EEEstonian biologist (1940-2010)
- Olavi Kärnerb. 1942EEEstonian mathematician, physicist, orienteer and coach (1942-2016)
- Siim Kärnerb. 1945EEEstonian poet and artist (1945-2007)
- Kaja Kärnerb. 1953EEEstonian journalist (born 1953)
- Olle Kärnerb. 1977EEEstonian orienteer (born 1977)
- Ly KärnerEEEstonian make-up artist (fl. 1966-)
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 Kaerner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Karner in Austria, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kaerner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 989 people named Karner in 2010, about 1 in 336 thousand residents.
- How common is Kaerner compared with other names?
- In Austria, Kaerner is the 92nd most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kaerner?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaernerThe 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, “Kaerner” — the 92nd most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.