Knopfler
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/knopfleɾ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Knopfler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 300K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 340Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
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 Knopfler 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)
- Record sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 95K (inferred from the name graph)
300 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Knöpfler in DE Germany, AT Austria, CH Switzerland.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Knopfler 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 | 300 | 1 in 1.1M | 353 | Knopfler | 93 |
| DE Germany | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 338K | — | Knöpfler | 31 |
| AT Austria | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Knöpfler | 8 |
| BR Brazil | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 5.2M | — | Knopfler | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Knopfler | 26 |
| CH Switzerland | 28 | 1 in 300K | 28 | Knöpfler | 4 |
| BE Belgium | 10 | 1 in 1.2M | 10 | — | 2 |
300 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 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)- Mark Knopflerb. 1949GBBritish musician (born 1949)
- David Knopflerb. 1952GBBritish musician
- Katya Ruby Rose Knopflerb. 2003GBdaughter of Mark Knopfler
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Knopfler?
- In Spanish /knopfleɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Knopfler have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 300 people named Knopfler, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled knopfler.
- How common is the name Knopfler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 300 people named Knopfler in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million 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/knopflerThe 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, “Knopfler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.