Kegler
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A ten-pin bowling player or enthusiast (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kɡlɛɾ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Kegler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 2,179 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- DEGermany≈1 in 77K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 153K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 170Kfew records
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
- 239 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
2,179 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Kegler
- Portuguese:/kɡlɛɾ/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/keɣleɾ/(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)Mentioned in the discussion as Keg(e)ler; etymology on this page is truncated. Bearer count: 367+34.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Kegler is read
(measured from records)Kegler is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English67%
A ten-pin bowling player or enthusiast.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese9.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kegler in Portuguese.
- German8.4%
Mentioned in the discussion as Keg(e)ler; etymology on this page is truncated. Bearer count: 367+34.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
nickname for a skilled or enthusiastic skittles player, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kegel ‘skittle’, ‘pin’. Kegley ^1164) Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 Coigligh (see Quigley).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from German kegel 'kegel player'; also a byname for a juggler or trickster
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Spanish5.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kegler in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Kegler is found
(measured from records)Kegler 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 | 2,179 | 1 in 153K | 2.2K | Kegler | 239 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Kegler | 71 |
| GH Ghana | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Kegler | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 776 | 1 in 273K | 776 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 267K | — | Kegler | 19 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Kegler | 4 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Kegler | 1 |
2,179 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)Kegler is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, Eremei Kegler, Iur'ev ambassador. 1392.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)- Richard Keglerb. 1965USAmerican typographer
- Michael Keglerb. 1967DEGerman author and translator
- Edita Keglerováb. 1973not in their usual nameCzech cemballist and music educator
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Kegler come from?
- Mentioned in the discussion as Keg(e)ler; etymology on this page is truncated. Bearer count: 367+34. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- How do you pronounce Kegler?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /kɡlɛɾ/; in Spanish /keɣleɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Kegler mean?
- In English, A ten-pin bowling player or enthusiast.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kegler?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Kegler, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kegler. After it come Germany, Ghana, Brazil and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kegler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,179 people named Kegler in 2010, about 1 in 153 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/keglerThe 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, “Kegler” — ranked 13867th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.