Stieler
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Berufsname zu mhd. stuol/mnd
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ʃtiːlɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stieler is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Berufsname zu mhd. stuol/mnd. stol 'Stuhl, Sitz'; -er-Bildung mit Varianten auf -ler/-ert. 1589 Belege.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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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)Stieler is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Zu Stuhl/Stiel bzw. evtl. Ortsname Stilow; 1589 Träger. Morphologisch: -er-Bildung mit i/ü-Variation; im Atlas als Berufs-/Herkunftsnamenform behandelt.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)- Kaspar von Stielerb. 1632DEpoet (1632-1707)
- Adolf Stielerb. 1775DEGerman cartographer and publisher
- Joseph Karl Stielerb. 1781DEGerman painter (1781–1858)
- Max Stielerb. 1825DEGerman author and painter (1825-1897)
- Karl Stielerb. 1842DEGerman writer (1842–1885)
- Eugen von Stielerb. 1845DEGerman painter (1845-1929)
- Hilde Stielerb. 1879DEGerman writer (1879-1965)
- Gerd Stieler von Heydekampfb. 1905DEGerman entrepreneur, manufacturer and manager
- Laila Stielerb. 1965DEGerman screenwriter and film producer
- Tobias Stielerb. 1981DEFootball referee
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 282 | #73,993 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 270 | #68,172 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 225 | #83,541 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 182 | #39,680 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 79 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 79 | #36,221 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 78 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 78 | #36,065 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 14 | #30,606 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10 | #120,154 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 8 | #167,220 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
Reference works 3
- 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
- How do you pronounce Stieler?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃtiːlɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Stieler mean?
- Recorded meaning: Berufsname zu mhd. stuol/mnd.
- In which country does Stieler have the most bearers?
- Stieler is most frequently recorded in Germany.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stielerThe 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, “Stieler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.