Reißner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from place names or from Riese; also from reisen
Reißner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 78K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.1Mas Reissner
- ATAustria≈1 in 51Kas Reissner
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 Reißner 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 78K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Reissner in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AT Austria and 4 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(measured from records)
from place names or from Riese; also from reisen
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Reißner 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 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Reißner | 82 |
| AT Austria | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Reissner | 31 |
| US United States | 158as Reissner | 1 in 2.1M | 168 | Reissner | 113 |
| BR Brazil | 55as Reissner | 1 in 3.8M | 55 | Reissner | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 21 | Reissner | 30 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 321K | — | Reissner | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | 21as Reissner | 1 in 400K | 21 | Reissner | 6 |
| PA Panama | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 865K | — | Reissner | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)
- Ernst Reissnerb. 1824LVBaltic German anatomist (1824-1878)
- Carl Reißnerb. 1848PLGerman publisher
- Anton Reißnerb. 1890DEGerman politician and contributing editor (1890–1940)
- Franz Reißnerb. 1957ATAustrian officer
- Lena Charlotte Reißnerb. 2000DEGerman cyclist
- Fritz ReißnerPLGerman association football 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)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Reißner mean, and where does it come from?
- from place names or from Riese; also from reisen Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Reißner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Reißner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reißner.
- How common is the name Reißner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 158 people named Reissner in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 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/rei%C3%9FnerThe 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, “Reißner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.