Köb
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Köb is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 43Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 160Kfew records
- CHSwitzerland1 in 494K
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 Köb 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
≈540 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, 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 Kub in US United States, DE Germany, CA Canada and 3 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)»1° dobar znak, bonum augurium, bonum omen, 2° malum omen, rđava slutnja, 3° susret, 4° vanjski izgled«
Cited for this meaning 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Köb 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 | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Kub | 63 |
| IN India | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 5.9M | — | Kub | 5 |
| AT Austria | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Köb | 26 |
| US United States | 136as Kub | 1 in 2.4M | 136 | Kub | 125 |
| CA Canada | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 347K | — | Kub | 15 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 339K | — | Kub | 19 |
| CZ Czechia | 60as Kub | 1 in 178K | 61 | Kub | 21 |
| BR Brazil | 47 | 1 in 4.5M | 47 | — | — |
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; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)Köb 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 Hungarian, cube (the third power of a number)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vo, comb
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Köb have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 535 people named Köb in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kub.
- How common is the name Köb?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 47 people named Köb, about 1 in 4.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Köb?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%B6bThe 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, “Köb”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.