Bérber
surname · Latin script
Bérber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,451 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French berbère, from Arabic بَرْبَر (barbar), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “non-Greek”). Doublet of Barbar.
- HRCroatia1 in 48K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 133K
- DKDenmark1 in 178K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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
- 113 (measured from records)
- 1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
1,451 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Berber in US United States, NL Netherlands, BR Brazil and 1 more.
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)- Frenchberbère(measured from records)
- Arabicبَرْبَرbarbar(measured from records)
- Ancient Greekβάρβαροςbárbaros“non-Greek”(measured from records)
Borrowed from French berbère, from Arabic بَرْبَر (barbar), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “non-Greek”). Doublet of Barbar.
Cited for this meaning 3
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bérber is found
(measured from records)Bérber 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 | 1,451 | 1 in 229K | 1.8K | Berber | 113 |
| BR Brazil | 249 | 1 in 850K | 249 | Berber | 40 |
| ES Spain | 89 | 1 in 562K | 89 | Berber | 19 |
| HR Croatia | 89 | 1 in 48K | 89 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 87 | 1 in 199K | 1.8K | Berber | 10 |
| CH Switzerland | 63 | 1 in 133K | 63 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 33 | 1 in 178K | 33 | — | — |
1,451 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bérber mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French berbère, from Arabic بَرْبَر (barbar), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “non-Greek”). Doublet of Barbar. Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bérber?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Bérber, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled berber. After it come Brazil, Spain, Croatia and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bérber most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bérber is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 48 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bérber?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,451 people named Bérber in 2010, about 1 in 229 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A9rberThe 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, “Bérber” — ranked 15824th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.