Fröbel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname, notably of pedagogue Friedrich Fröbel (1782–1852)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈfʁøːbəl/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Fröbel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 76K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 646K
- CACanada≈1 in 690Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Fröbel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Rwanda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Frobel in CA Canada, BB Barbados, IE Ireland and 2 more and Froebel in US United States, CH Switzerland, GH Ghana.
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)a surname, notably of pedagogue Friedrich Fröbel (1782–1852)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fröbel 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 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Fröbel | 57 |
| RW Rwanda | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Frobel | 1 |
| US United States | 224as Froebel | 1 in 1.5M | 241 | Froebel | 114 |
| GH Ghana | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 377K | — | Froebel | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 686K | — | Frobel | 20 |
| IE Ireland | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 327K | — | Frobel | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 13 | 1 in 646K | 13 | Froebel | 4 |
| BB Barbados | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Frobel | 1 |
| BZ Belize | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 295K | — | Frobel | 1 |
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 2000; 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)- Friedrich Fröbelb. 1782DEGerman educator
- Carl Poppo Fröbelb. 1786DEGerman classical philologist, high school teacher and publisher (1786-1824)
- Julius Fröbelb. 1805DEGerman mineralogist (1805-1893)
- Karl Friedrich Fröbelb. 1807DEGerman educationist (1807–1894)
- Anne S. Frobelb. 1816Civil War diarist (1816–1907)
- Heinz Fröbelb. 1921DEGerman politician
- Karin Neugebauerb. 1955DEnot in their usual nameEast German swimmer
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 13 | #50,156 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fröbel mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname, notably of pedagogue Friedrich Fröbel (1782–1852) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Fröbel?
- In German /ˈfʁøːbəl/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Fröbel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Fröbel in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fröbel.
- How common is the name Fröbel?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 13 people named Fröbel in 2024, about 1 in 646 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fr%C3%B6belThe 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, “Fröbel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.