Kestler
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Kastner (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/kestleɾ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Kestler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,030 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- CZCzechia1 in 153K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 245K
- USUnited States1 in 323K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- 1 in 153K (inferred from the name graph)
1,030 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Kestler
- Spanish:/kestleɾ/(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)variant of Kastner.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Kestler is found
(measured from records)Kestler 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 | 1,030 | 1 in 323K | 1.2K | Kestler | 19 |
| AR Argentina | 115 | 1 in 395K | 115 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 70 | 1 in 153K | 70 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 24 | 1 in 245K | 24 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 15 | 1 in 560K | 15 | — | 1 |
1,030 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 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)- Kurt Kestlerb. 1922DEGerman politician (1922-2003)
- Hans-Günter Kestlerb. 1939DEGerman chess player
- Amalie Kestlerb. 1976DKDanish journalist
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kestler mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Kastner. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kestler?
- In Spanish /kestleɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kestler?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Kestler, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kestler. After it come Argentina, Czechia, Denmark and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kestler most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kestler is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 153 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kestler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,030 people named Kestler in 2010, about 1 in 323 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kestlerThe 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, “Kestler” — ranked 20556th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.