Graef
surname · Latin script
Meaning: status name for the chairman of a town council
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡɹæf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Graef is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 17Kas Gaurav(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 22Kas Gaurav
- USUnited States1 in 74Kas Gaurav
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 Graef itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 393 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 named Gaurav, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est., as Gaurav
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gaurav in IN India, AU Australia, MY Malaysia and 3 more, Graf in US United States and Gourab in BD Bangladesh.
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)
status name for the chairman of a town council. Compare Graf.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Graef 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Gaurav | 40 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Gaurav | 54 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Gourab | 30 |
| US United States | — | 4,525as Gaurav | 1 in 74K | 14K | Graf | 393 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 1 | Gaurav | 141 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Gaurav | 25 |
| SG Singapore | #746 | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Gaurav | 73 |
| IN India | #129 | — | — | 3.8K | Gaurav | 310 |
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: The Indian name database provides a list of popular Indian surnames and first names categorized by gender and frequency,; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
- Gustav Graefb. 1821DEGerman artist (1821-1895)
- Paul Graefb. 1855DEGerman architect, art historian, archaeologist and architectural historian (1855–1925)
- Botho Graefb. 1857DEGerman art historian and archaeologist (1857–1917)
- Reinhold Victor Walther Graefb. 1873DEGerman judge and politician (1873-1937)
- Walther Graefb. 1875DEGerman politician
- Edith Graef McGeerb. 1923USAmerican neuroscientist
- Roger Graefb. 1936USAmerican British film-maker
- Jed Graefb. 1942USAmerican swimmer
- Gustavo Graef Marinob. 1955CLChilean film director
- Peter De Graefb. 1958BEBelgian playwright, theatre director and actor
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)
Attested in 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,484 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,694 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,512 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Graef come from?
- status name for the chairman of a town council. Compare Graf. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Graef?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɹæf/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Graef mean?
- Recorded meaning: status name for the chairman of a town council.
- In which country does Graef have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Gaurav in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Graef?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,525 people named Gaurav in 2020, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
- How common is Graef compared with other names?
- In India, Graef is the 129th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/graefThe 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, “Graef” — the 129th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.