Knödler
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: BFS, 2024
Knödler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 39K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 336K
- CACanada≈1 in 580Kfew recordsas Knoedler
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 Knödler itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 177 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Knoedler in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 5 more.
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 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Knödler 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Knödler | 59 |
| US United States | 524as Knoedler | 1 in 635K | 524 | Knoedler | 177 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 770K | — | Knoedler | 9 |
| CA Canada | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 577K | — | Knoedler | 16 |
| BR Brazil | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | — | Knoedler | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | 25 | 1 in 336K | 25 | Knoedler | 3 |
| AT Austria | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 463K | — | Knoedler | 8 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 412K | — | Knoedler | 1 |
| BM Bermuda | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Knoedler | 1 |
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; 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)- Michael Knoedlerb. 1823DEUS art dealer (1823-1878)
- Friedrich Knödlerb. 1920DEGerman painter (1920-1988)
- Günther Knödlerb. 1925DEGerman fencer (1925-1996)
- Ottheinrich Knödlerb. 1930DEGerman theologian and writer (1930-2015)
- Eberhard Knödler-Bunteb. 1945DEGerman social scientist and communication scholar
- Dieter Knödlerb. 1964German chess player
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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 25 | #31,192 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- In which country does Knödler have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Knödler in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled knödler.
- How common is the name Knödler?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 25 people named Knödler in 2024, about 1 in 336 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Knödler?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kn%C3%B6dlerThe 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, “Knödler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.