Kiser
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Kiser is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 18,674 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. In Liberia it is the 87th most common surname.
- LRLiberia≈1 in 7.4Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 11K
- USUnited States1 in 18K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 392 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.4K (inferred from the name graph)
18,674 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Liberia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Kiser is found
(measured from records)Kiser 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 18,674 | 1 in 18K | 19K | Kiser | 392 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Kiser | 35 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Kiser | 51 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 757 | 1 in 11K | 757 | Kiser | 33 |
| LR Liberia | #87 | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Kiser | 1 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Kiser | 4 |
| AX Åland Islands | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Kiser | 2 |
18,674 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Kiser is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Bokmål, indefinite plural of kis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Maltese, to break
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jackson L. Kiserb. 1929USUnited States federal judge
- Terry Kiserb. 1939USAmerican actor
- André Kiserb. 1958CHSwiss bobsledder
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kiser?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Kiser, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kiser. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland and Liberia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kiser?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,674 people named Kiser in 2010, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Kiser compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Kiser is the 87th most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kiser?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kiserThe 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, “Kiser” — ranked 1865th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.