Keiner
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from a reduced form of the personal name Kagenher, from Old High German gagan ‘against’ + heri ‘army’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ceiŋeɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Keiner is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 9.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela1 in 45K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 12K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a reduced form of the personal name Kagenher, from Old High German gagan ‘against’ + heri ‘army’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Keiner 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.
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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names. 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)
Keiner is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, none
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, relieur
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Walter Keinerb. 1890DEGerman general and Knight's Cross recipients (1890–1978)
- Julia Keiner Forchheimerb. 1900ILGerman-born Israeli weaver and textile artist
- Jerzy Korczakb. 1927PLnot in their usual namePolish writer
- Michael Keinerb. 1959DEGerman poker player
- Marco Keinerb. 1963DEGerman United Nations official
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 11 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Keiner mean, and where does it come from?
- from a reduced form of the personal name Kagenher, from Old High German gagan ‘against’ + heri ‘army’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Keiner?
- A machine transcription gives /ceiŋeɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Keiner a male or female name?
- Keiner is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Keiner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.4 thousand people named Keiner in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled keiner.
- How common is the name Keiner?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 809 people named Keiner in 2024, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
- How common is Keiner compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Keiner is the 829th most common given name of 106,067 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/keinerThe 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, “Keiner” — the 829th most common given name in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.