Gräb
surname · Latin script
Gräb is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Zu mhd. graf 'Graf'; zeigt b/f/v/w-Varianz in der Schreibweise.
- DEGermany≈1 in 71K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 355K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 19K
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)
- Sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Grab in US United States, DE Germany, PL Poland and 4 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)
Zu mhd. graf 'Graf'; zeigt b/f/v/w-Varianz in der Schreibweise. 3 Types/305 Tokens; Formen Gräb, Graeb, Weichgräb.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gräb 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 71K | — | Grab | 79 |
| PL Poland | 1,073 | 1 in 36K | 537 | Grab | 1 |
| US United States | 936 | 1 in 355K | 990 | Grab | 189 |
| CH Switzerland | 453 | 1 in 19K | 453 | Grab | 33 |
| EG Egypt | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 312K | — | Grab | 9 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Grab | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Grab | 4 |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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)
Gräb is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Westmitteldeutsche Varianten mit b/frikativ-plosivischer Variation; 305 Träger. Variantenbeleg: Grebe(n), von Grebe, Greibe, Greebe; mit Präfixen auch Land-, Ho(ch)-, Zinn-, Zin(g)-, Wie(g)-, Hol(z/t)-, Weich-, Borg-, Witt-, Voll-, Born-, Lan-, Wiet-, Hellgrebe.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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)
- Elisabeth Gräb-Schmidtb. 1956DEGerman theologian and university teacher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #221,142 |
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 Gräb mean?
- Recorded meaning: Zu mhd. graf 'Graf'; zeigt b/f/v/w-Varianz in der Schreibweise.
- In which country does Gräb have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Gräb in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grab.
- Where is Gräb most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gräb is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 19 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gräb?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,073 people named Gräb in 2026, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gräb?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gr%C3%A4bThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Gräb”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.