Kessler

Kessler is the 1,231st most common surname in the United States, shared by 28,055 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 10,700.

By the numbers

People: 28,055
Rank: 1,231st
How common: 1 in 10,700
Per 100,000: 9.4

Where the name comes from

Origin German

. See also Kessel (“kettle”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Kessler

Nadine Keßler (born 1988)German soccer player
Georg Keßler (born 1932)German association football player, manager and university teacher

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

Surnames like Kessler

Also a first name

Kessler has been given to 687 American babies as a first name since 1974, peaking in 2017. 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.