Ketler
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɛtɫɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ketler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: German; variant spelling of Kettler.
- DKDenmark1 in 293K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 300K
- BRBrazil1 in 6.6M
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 Ketler 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- 1 in 293K (inferred from the name graph)
3,424 named Kettler, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Кетлер in RU Russia, UA Ukraine and Kettler in US United States.
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(measured from records)
German; variant spelling of Kettler.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ketler 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 | 3,424as Kettler | 1 in 97K | 3.4K | Kettler | 10 |
| RU Russia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Кетлер | 66 |
| NL Netherlands | 58as Kettler | 1 in 298K | 58 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 32 | 1 in 6.6M | 68 | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Кетлер | 10 |
| DK Denmark | 20 | 1 in 293K | 20 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 19as Kettler | 1 in 442K | 19 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 7 | 1 in 300K | 7 | — | — |
3,424 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); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
- Isaac C. Ketlerb. 1853USAmerican academic
- Marko KetlerSIresearcher
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)
Attested in 17 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 360 | #60,433 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 337 | #56,687 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 302 | #65,593 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 32 | #142,633 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 20 | #23,332 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 7 | #23,330 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Ketler mean, and where does it come from?
- German; variant spelling of Kettler. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Ketler?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɛtɫɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ketler have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Kettler, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ketler most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ketler is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 293 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ketler?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 32 people named Ketler, about 1 in 6.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Ketler?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ketlerThe 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, “Ketler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.