Kohler
At the 2020 census, 16,227 Americans bore the surname Kohler — 2,183rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 18,400.
By the numbers
- People
- 16,227
- Rank
- 2,183rd
- How common
- 1 in 18,400
- Per 100,000
- 5.4
Where the name comes from
Origin German
From German Kohler, Köhler (“charcoal burner”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Kohler described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Kohler
- Horst Köhler (1943–2025)German politician (CDU); president of Germany, 2004–2010
- Georges J. F. Köhler (1946–1995)German immunologist
- Jürgen Kohler (born 1965)German footballer
- Wolfgang Köhler (1887–1967)German-American psychologist and phenomenologist
- Juliane Köhler (born 1965)German actress
- Thomas Köhler (born 1940)East German luger
- Martin Kohler (born 1985)road bicycle racer
- Sarah Köhler (born 1994)German swimmer
People named Kohler with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Kohler
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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.