Kuchler
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1.(also Kiichler): occupational name for a pastry cook, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kuoche ‘cake’, ‘pastry’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkəkəɫɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kuchler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 26K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 513K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 12K
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 Kuchler 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 named Kuechler, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Küchler in DE Germany, CH Switzerland and Kuechler in CN China.
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)
1.(also Kiichler): occupational name for a pastry cook, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kuoche ‘cake’, ‘pastry’. 2. (Kuchler): occupational name for a pastry cook, from KUchle, a southern diminutive of Kuchen ‘cake’ (Middle High German kuoche). 3. in Austria, occupational name for someone who worked in a kitchen, from Bavarian-Austrian Kuchel ‘kitchen’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kuchler 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 342K | — | Kuechler | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 26K | listed | Küchler | 79 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Kuchler | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 721 | 1 in 12K | 721 | Küchler | 22 |
| US United States | 648 | 1 in 513K | 648 | Kuchler | 169 |
| AT Austria | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Kuchler | 26 |
| CZ Czechia | 35 | 1 in 306K | 36 | — | — |
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; the dfa-band-1 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end). 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)
Kuchler 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 German, Vokalvariation u; zu Siedlungsnamen wie Küche(l), Kücheln, Kucheln, Kuchen, Kuchl; 320+571 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Berufsname zu mhd. kuoche „Kuchen“; Vokalvarianz u/ü in -(n/l)er-Bildung. 891 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
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)
- Conrad Heinrich Küchlerb. 1740DEGerman engraver
- Heinz Kuchlerb. 1921DEGerman politician
- Walter Kuchlerb. 1932DEGerman author
- Jiri Kuchlerb. 1950CZCzech athlete
- Richard Kuchlerb. 1951Olympic sailor
- Jiří Kuchlerb. 1977CZCzech ice hockey player
- Christian Kuchlerb. 1985CHSwiss chef
- Albert Kuchlerb. 1998DEGerman cross-country skier
- Darja Šervicl-KuchlerSIresearcher
- Magdalena KuchlerSEresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-8110-4538
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 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 648 | #34,835 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 645 | #33,380 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 589 | #40,169 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 46 | #19,892 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 36 | #12,270 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 35 | #37,161 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Kuchler come from?
- 1.(also Kiichler): occupational name for a pastry cook, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kuoche ‘cake’, ‘pastry’. 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kuchler?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkəkəɫɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kuchler mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1.(also Kiichler): occupational name for a pastry cook, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kuoche ‘cake’, ‘pastry’.
- In which country does Kuchler have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Kuechler in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kuchler most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kuchler is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kuchler?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 721 people named Kuchler in 2024, about 1 in 12 thousand 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/kuchlerThe 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, “Kuchler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.