Kussmaul
surname · Latin script
Meaning: apparently from Kuss ‘kiss’ + Maul ‘mouth’, but actually a Germanized form of Czech kosmaty ‘shaggy-haired’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Kussmaul is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 140K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 137K (inferred from the name graph)
≈610 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)apparently from Kuss ‘kiss’ + Maul ‘mouth’, but actually a Germanized form of Czech kosmaty ‘shaggy-haired’ .
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kussmaul is found
(measured from records)Kussmaul counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Kussmaul | 74 |
| US United States | 241 | 1 in 1.4M | 242 | Kussmaul | 115 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Kussmaul | 8 |
| CA Canada | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Kussmaul | 12 |
| BR Brazil | 21 | 1 in 10M | 21 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | Kussmaul | 10 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 874K | — | Kussmaul | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Adolf Kußmaulb. 1822DEnot in their usual nameGerman surgeon (1822–1902)
- Rainer Kussmaulb. 1946DEGerman violinist, conductor, concertmaster and university teacher (1946-2017)
- Wes Kussmaulb. 1946American encyclopedist
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kussmaul mean, and where does it come from?
- apparently from Kuss ‘kiss’ + Maul ‘mouth’, but actually a Germanized form of Czech kosmaty ‘shaggy-haired’ . Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kussmaul?
- Mondonomo estimates about 610 people named Kussmaul in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kussmaul. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kussmaul?
- In the United States, the national register counted 241 people named Kussmaul in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kussmaulThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Kussmaul”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.