Kjer
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dʒɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kjer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 13K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 249K
- ARArgentina1 in 2.7M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
443 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kjer 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #933 | 443 | 1 in 13K | 443 | Kjer | 58 |
| US United States | — | 123 | 1 in 2.7M | 146 | Kjer | 12 |
| NO Norway | — | 22 | 1 in 249K | 22 | Kjer | 6 |
| AR Argentina | — | 17 | 1 in 2.7M | 17 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 3 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 2 |
443 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kjer is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Bokmål, a device consisting of a chamber with a wedge-shaped entrance for catching salmon or trout in rivers
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovenian, where
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Bodil Valborg Karen Ellen Kjerb. 1917DKDanish actress (1917–2003)
- Karl M. Kjerb. 1959USAmerican entomologist (born 1959)
- Lonnie Kjerb. 1972DKDanish singer
- Poul KjerOphthalmologist credited for Kjer's optic neuropathy
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 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 443 | #988 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 146 | #111,740 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 138 | #129,045 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 123 | #136,449 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 22 | #40,073 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 17 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #269,375 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #348,814 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Kjer?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kjer have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 443 people named Kjer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kjer.
- Where is Kjer most common?
- Kjer is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kjer?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 443 people named Kjer, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Kjer compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Kjer is the 933rd most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kjer?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kjerThe 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, “Kjer” — the 933rd most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.