Kiessel
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kiessel is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Somalia it is the 24th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script.
- CFCentral African Republic1 in 2K◐
- SOSomalia1 in 4.3K
- BBBarbados1 in 58K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈158 ●
- Sources
- 62 ●
- 1 in 2.2M ◐
across 2 countries
1.3K records
Reference-verified
United States
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 148 | 829 rec. | 1 in 2.2M | 151 | Kiessel | 62 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 70 | 70 rec. | — | — | Kiessel | 1 |
| SO Somalia | #24 | 61 | 199 rec. | — | — | Kiessel | 1 |
| CF Central African Republic | #24 | 52 | 52 rec. | — | — | Kiessel | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | 38 | 33 rec. | — | — | Kiessel | 21 |
| CA Canada | — | 25 | 25 rec. | — | — | Kiessel | 2 |
| BB Barbados | — | 21 | 21 rec. | — | — | Kiessel | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 19 | 19 rec. | — | — | Kiessel | 2 |
| IE Ireland | — | 16 | 16 rec. | — | — | Kiessel | 1 |
| AR Argentina | — | 10 | — | 1 in 4.5M | 10 | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | — | 8 | 8 rec. | — | — | Kiessel | 1 |
| IN India | — | 6 | 6 rec. | — | — | Kiessel | 1 |
Roughly 148 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 2.2M). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English1.1K75%
- German1168%
- Spanish1047%
- 272%
- ux211%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 1,120 | 75% |
| German | 116 | 8% |
| Spanish | 104 | 7% |
| 27 | 2% | |
| ux | 21 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Georg Kiesselb. 1907DEGerman jurist
- Ernesto KiesselARArgentinian 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●
Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 151 | #120,768 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 148 | #117,480 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 138 | #116,835 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 10 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 5 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kiessel?
- We estimate roughly 158 people bear Kiessel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kiessel have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 148 people bear Kiessel in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kiessel.
- How common is Kiessel compared with other names?
- In Somalia, Kiessel is the 24th most common surname of 1,294 surnames recorded there.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Kiessel” — the 24th most common surname in Somalia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.