Kindler
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A person who kindles or ignites something
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɪndəɫɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kindler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 361K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 14K
- CNChina≈1 in 87K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 229 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A person who kindles or ignites something.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kindler 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Kindler | 3 |
| US United States | 921 | 1 in 361K | 1.2K | Kindler | 229 |
| CH Switzerland | 601 | 1 in 14K | 601 | Kindler | 13 |
| BR Brazil | 212 | 1 in 999K | 212 | Kindler | 31 |
| IT Italy | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 313K | — | Kindler | 4 |
| JO Jordan | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Kindler | 2 |
| IE Ireland | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Kindler | 5 |
| HR Croatia | 28 | 1 in 151K | 28 | — | — |
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 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
- Albert Kindlerb. 1833DEGerman painter (1833-1876)
- Hans Kindlerb. 1892NLAmerican conductor and cellist (1892-1949)
- Helmut Kindlerb. 1912DEGerman journalist and publisher (1912-2008)
- Arie Kindlerb. 1920ILIsraeli numismatist
- Klaus Kindlerb. 1930DEGerman actor, dub actor and voice actor (1930–2001)
- Brigitte Kindlerb. 1957ATAustrian field hockey player
- Beat Kindlerb. 1965CHSwiss ice hockey player
- Damian Kindlerb. 1968AUAustralian television producer
- Sven-Christian Kindlerb. 1985DEGerman politician
- Andy Kindlerb. 2000USAmerican actor
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 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,518 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #21,004 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 921 | #26,492 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 601 | #2,123 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 212 | #35,048 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 28 | #19,006 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 28 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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 Kindler mean, and where does it come from?
- A person who kindles or ignites something. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kindler?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɪndəɫɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kindler have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Kindler in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kindler.
- Where is Kindler most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kindler is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kindler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 921 people named Kindler in 2010, about 1 in 361 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kindlerThe 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, “Kindler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.