Kuester
surname · Latin script
Meaning: status name for a sexton (see Kuster)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkʊstɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kuester is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.4Kas Kuster(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 12Kas Küster
- NLNetherlands1 in 13Kas Kuster
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 Kuester 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 258 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 named Kuster, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kuster in CH Switzerland, NL Netherlands, CN China and Küster in DE Germany.
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)
status name for a sexton (see Kuster).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kuester 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 | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Kuster | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 6,601as Kuster | 1 in 32K | 6.6K | — | 4 |
| DE Germany | #583 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Küster | 104 |
| CH Switzerland | #136 | 3,497as Kuster | 1 in 2.4K | 3.5K | Kuster | 81 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Kuester | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,363as Kuster | 1 in 13K | 1.4K | Kuster | 44 |
| HR Croatia | — | 475as Kušter | 1 in 8.9K | 475 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 340as Kuster | 1 in 10K | 340 | — | — |
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: the dfa-band-5 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Gus Kuesterb. 1888USAmerican politician
- Edward F. Kuesterb. 1950USresearcher (ORCID 0000-0003-3665-0067)
- John Kuesterb. 1955USAmerican basketball player and coach
- Sabine KuesterDEresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-0985-2288
- Falko KuesterUSPh.D. University of California, Davis 2001
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 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 295 | #26,791 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Kuester mean, and where does it come from?
- status name for a sexton (see Kuster). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kuester?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkʊstɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kuester have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Kuster in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kuester?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 6,601 people named Kuster, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
- How common is Kuester compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Kuester is the 136th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kuester?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kuesterThe 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, “Kuester” — the 136th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.