Kirshner
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kirshner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant spelling Ashkenazic Jewish Kirschner or an Americanized spelling of the German name.
- ILIsrael1 in 19Kas קירשנר(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 33Kas Kirchner
- JMJamaica≈1 in 132K
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 Kirshner 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
- 233 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 132K (inferred from the name graph)
10,044 named Kirchner, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled קירשנר in IL Israel, RO Romania.
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)
Variant spelling Ashkenazic Jewish Kirschner or an Americanized spelling of the German name.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kirshner 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 | 10,044as Kirchner | 1 in 33K | 10K | Kirshner | 233 |
| BR Brazil | 877as Kirchner | 1 in 241K | 877 | — | 2 |
| RO Romania | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | קירשנר | 2 |
| IL Israel | 463as קירשנר | 1 in 19K | 463 | קירשנר | 22 |
| CZ Czechia | 308as Kirchner | 1 in 35K | 308 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 266as Kirchner | 1 in 32K | 266 | — | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Kirshner | 1 |
10,044 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling kirchner. 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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)
- Don Kirshnerb. 1934USAmerican songwriter, publisher, music producer, manager (1934–2011)
- Micha Kirshnerb. 1947ILIsraeli photographer
- Robert Kirshnerb. 1949USAmerican astronomer
- Lev Kirshnerb. 1969USAmerican soccer player-coach
- Mia Kirshnerb. 1975CACanadian actress (born 1975)
- Julian Kirshnerb. 1985USAmerican drummer
- Benjamin R. KirshnerUSprofessor of education
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 852 | #26,829 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 803 | #30,982 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 508 | #42,640 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 45 | #112,812 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #197,160 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 2 | #24,941 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Kirshner mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant spelling Ashkenazic Jewish Kirschner or an Americanized spelling of the German name. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kirshner have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Kirchner, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kirshner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,044 people named Kirchner in 2010, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kirshnerThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kirshner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.