Kindle
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Variant of German Kindel (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Kindle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 4,109 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- LILiechtenstein≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 55Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 81K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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
- 279 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
4,109 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Liechtenstein, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Variant of German Kindel. Kindler(485) 1 . German; from an agent derivative of the obsolete verb kindeln ‘to beget children’, hence a nickname for someone who had a lot of children.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kindle is found
(measured from records)Kindle 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 | 4,109 | 1 in 81K | 4.1K | Kindle | 279 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | Kindle | 22 |
| CA Canada | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Kindle | 26 |
| SG Singapore | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Kindle | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 251K | 1 | Kindle | 15 |
| IE Ireland | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Kindle | 6 |
| LI Liechtenstein | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 312 | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 103K | 2 | — | 1 |
4,109 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; Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Kindle is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from German Kind ‘child’ + the agent suffix -ler, most likely an occupational name for a schoolteacher.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, To start (a fire) or light (a torch, a match, coals, etc.).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, v., ngate
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In English, variant of Kendall.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)- Fidel Kindleb. 1850LIGerman architect
- Greg Kindleb. 1950USAmerican gridiron football player
- Sergio Kindleb. 1987USAmerican football player
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Kindle come from?
- Variant of German Kindel. Kindler(485) 1 . German; from an agent derivative of the obsolete verb kindeln ‘to beget children’, hence a nickname for someone who had a lot of children. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Kindle mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variant of German Kindel.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kindle?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Kindle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kindle. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Singapore and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kindle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,109 people named Kindle in 2010, about 1 in 81 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/kindleThe 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, “Kindle” — ranked 8065th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.