Kamler
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Altered spelling of German Kammler, occupational name for a comb maker or more probably a wool comber (see Kamm) (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kamleɾ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Kamler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 326 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- BBBarbados≈1 in 7Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 91K
- PLPoland1 in 327K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)
326 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Barbados, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Kamler
- Spanish:/kamleɾ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Altered spelling of German Kammler, occupational name for a comb maker or more probably a wool comber (see Kamm). It has been suggested that it may also be an agent noun from Middle High German kamin ‘chimney’, ‘stove’, hence an occupational name for a stove and chinmey fitter. The surname Kamsetzer undoubtedly has this sense, but it is not clear whether Kamler does.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kamler is found
(measured from records)Kamler 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 | — | 326 | 1 in 1M | 355 | Kamler | 169 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 117 | 1 in 91K | 117 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 117 | 1 in 327K | 59 | — | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 872K | — | Kamler | 37 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Kamler | 7 |
| BB Barbados | #149 | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Kamler | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 295K | — | Kamler | 1 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 754K | — | Kamler | 1 |
326 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 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)- Piotr Kamlerb. 1936PLPolish animator and director
- Kenneth Kamlerb. 1947USAmerican surgeon and mountain climber
- Brian Kamlerb. 1972USAmerican soccer player
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kamler mean, and where does it come from?
- Altered spelling of German Kammler, occupational name for a comb maker or more probably a wool comber (see Kamm). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kamler?
- In Spanish /kamleɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kamler?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 326 people named Kamler, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kamler. After it come Czechia, Poland, Germany and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kamler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 326 people named Kamler in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
- How common is Kamler compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Kamler is the 149th most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kamlerThe 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, “Kamler” — ranked 60557th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.