Kaiser

32,286 people in the United States were counted with the surname Kaiser in the 2020 census, making it the 1,068th most common in the country. That is about one person in 9,258.

By the numbers

People: 32,286
Rank: 1,068th
How common: 1 in 9,258
Per 100,000: 10.8

Where the name comes from

from Old High German keisar (“emperor”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaisar, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 1.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Kaiser

Georg Kaiser (1878–1945)German dramatist
Henry J. Kaiser (1882–1967)American industrialist
Carlos Kaiser (born 1963)Brazilian footballer
Stien Kaiser (1938–2022)Dutch speed skater
Dominik Kaiser (born 1988)German footballer
Willy Kaiser (1912–1986)boxer
Otto Kaiser (1901–1977)Austrian pair skater
Franz Kaiser (1891–1962)German astronomer

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

Surnames like Kaiser

Kain

Also a first name

Kaiser has been given to 3,955 American babies as a first name since 1915, peaking in 2022. 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.