Kielar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a cellarman, a borrowing of German Keller ‘cellar’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkiɫɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kielar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 8.8K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 228K
- NONorway1 in 497K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.8K (inferred from the name graph)
4,348 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
occupational name for a cellarman, a borrowing of German Keller ‘cellar’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kielar 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 4,348 | 1 in 8.8K | 2.2K | Kielar | 76 |
| US United States | 463 | 1 in 718K | 463 | Kielar | 61 |
| FR France | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 652K | 5 | Kielar | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 709K | — | Kielar | 22 |
| IT Italy | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 730K | — | Kielar | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | 47 | 1 in 228K | 47 | Kielar | 14 |
| NO Norway | 11 | 1 in 497K | 11 | — | 1 |
| SK Slovakia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 587K | — | Kielar | 6 |
4,348 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Wiesław Kielarb. 1919PLPolish writer (1919–1990)
- Barbara Z. Kielarb. 1930PLPolish translator and translation specialist; professor at the University of Warsaw (1930-2021)
- Marzanna Bogumiła Kielarb. 1963PLPolish poet
- Piotr Kielarb. 1968PLPolish actor
- Wojciech Kielarb. 1978PLPolish skydiver
- Magdalena Kielarb. 1979PLPolish actress
- Ania Kielarresearcher
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.2K | #1,207 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.1K | #1,219 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 463 | #46,037 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 428 | #46,758 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 416 | #53,634 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 47 | #30,412 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 47 | #10,904 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 12 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Kielar mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for a cellarman, a borrowing of German Keller ‘cellar’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kielar?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkiɫɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kielar have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Kielar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kielar.
- Where is Kielar most common?
- Kielar is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kielar?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4,348 people named Kielar in 2026, about 1 in 8.8 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kielarThe 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, “Kielar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.