Knaster
surname · Latin script
Meaning: canaster
/knəstɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Knaster is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 155K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 3.2M
- PLPoland1 in 19M
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 Knaster 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
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 155K (inferred from the name graph)
103 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled קנסטר in IL Israel, PL Poland.
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)
canaster
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Knaster 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 | 103 | 1 in 3.2M | 108 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 36 | 1 in 155K | 36 | — | — |
| IL Israel | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 926K | — | קנסטר | 4 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | קנסטר | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | — | 2 | — | — |
103 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Knaster is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weed, cheap tobacco, canaster
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, crackling, crunching
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rmg, a cigarette
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)
- Chaim Heinrich Knasterb. 1870PLHolocaust victim (born 1870)
- Bronisław Knasterb. 1893PLXXth century Mathematician (1893–1980)
- Scott Knasterb. 1901USAmerican writer
- Alexander Knasterb. 1959GBBritish-American businessman
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 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 108 | #141,788 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 103 | #157,234 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 36 | #30,057 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #346,622 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Knaster mean, and where does it come from?
- canaster Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Knaster?
- A machine transcription gives /knəstɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Knaster have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 103 people named Knaster, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Knaster most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Knaster is densest in Finland — about 1 in 155 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Knaster?
- In the United States, the national register counted 103 people named Knaster in 2010, about 1 in 3.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Knaster?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/knasterThe 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, “Knaster”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.