Adler

At the 2020 census, 15,949 Americans bore the surname Adler — 2,224th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 18,700.

By the numbers

People: 15,949
Rank: 2,224th
How common: 1 in 18,700
Per 100,000: 5.3

Where the name comes from

Origin German

From German Adler.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Adler described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Adler

Alfred Adler (1870–1937)Austrian psychotherapist
Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001)American philosopher, author and educator
René Adler (born 1985)German footballer
Robert Adler (1913–2007)American physicist and inventor
Friedrich Adler (1879–1960)Austrian politician
Steven Adler (born 1965)American drummer
Victor Adler (1852–1918)foreign minister of Austria, editor
Stella Adler (1901–1992)American actress and acting teacher

People named Adler with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Also a first name

Adler has been given to 4,156 American babies as a first name since 1985, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.