Köller
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from a settlement name; bearer count 1400
/cʰœlɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Köller is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Austria it is the 37th most common surname.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 1.4K
- DEGermany≈1 in 7.3K
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 Köller 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
- 328 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Koller in US United States, DE Germany, CH Switzerland and 1 more and Koeller in BO Bolivia, 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)
Toponymic surname from a settlement name; bearer count 1400.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Köller 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 | — | Koeller | 5 |
| DE Germany | #408 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Koller | 157 |
| CH Switzerland | #41 | 7,189 | 1 in 1.2K | 7.2K | Koller | 104 |
| US United States | — | 6,792 | 1 in 49K | 6.8K | Koller | 328 |
| AT Austria | #37 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Koller | 122 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Koeller | 3 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 455 | 1 in 12K | 455 | — | — |
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); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)
Köller is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Variante zu Köhler, Berufsname 'Köhler'; die Karte zeigt Monophthongvarianz o/ö. 1410 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Variante mit ö; teils Berufsname, teils wohl Herkunftsname zu Köln/Colre. Die Karte zeigt o/ö-Vokalschwankung.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Variante zu Köhler; im west- und nordmitteldeutschen Raum verbreitet, mit Verdichtung in Ostwestfalen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Toponymic surname from Köln/Cölln; bearers: 19+1347. < SiedlungsN 3
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
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)
- Catharina Köllerb. 16391639-1664; Ehefrau von Martin Cöller, Jurist
- Willibrord Köllerb. 1765DEPrussian district administrator
- Matthias Köllerb. 1797PLGerman jurist (1797-1883)
- Johann Caspar Köllerb. 1808CHSwiss watercolorist
- Georg Ernst Maximilian von Köllerb. 1823PLGerman politician (1823-1916)
- Ernst von Köllerb. 1841PLGerman politician (1841-1928)
- Claus Henning von Köllerb. 1874DEGerman jurist
- Karlheinz Köllerb. 1946DEGerman agronomist
- Uwe Köllerb. 1964DEGerman musician
- Marco Köllerb. 1969DEGerman footballer
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 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 29 | #28,044 |
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
- What does the name Köller mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from a settlement name; bearer count 1400. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Köller?
- A machine transcription gives /cʰœlɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Köller have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Köller in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled koeller.
- Where is Köller most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Köller is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Köller?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 7,189 people named Köller in 2024, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Köller compared with other names?
- In Austria, Köller is the 37th most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%B6llerThe 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, “Köller” — the 37th most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.