Körber
surname · Latin script
Meaning: zu Korb/Korbmacher; zeigt b/f/v/w-Variation der Korb-Namen (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Körber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 26K
- ATAustria≈1 in 32Kfew 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 Körber 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)
- Record sources
- 232 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Körber in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Koerber in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 1 more and Korber in AT Austria, CH Switzerland.
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 Korb/Korbmacher; zeigt b/f/v/w-Variation der Korb-Namen. Bearer count: 200+.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Körber is found
(measured from records)Körber 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 | #884 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Körber | 91 |
| US United States | — | 1,488as Koerber | 1 in 224K | 1.7K | Koerber | 232 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Korber | 28 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 286K | — | Koerber | 30 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 250K | — | Koerber | 32 |
| BR Brazil | — | 94 | 1 in 2.3M | 94 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 93 | 1 in 90K | 93 | Korber | 15 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Koerber | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 80 | 1 in 26K | 80 | — | 2 |
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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)- Hilde Körberb. 1906ATAustrian actress (1906–1969)
- Maria Körberb. 1930DEGerman actress (1930-2018)
- Claudius Körberb. 1982DEGerman 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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Körber mean?
- Recorded meaning: zu Korb/Korbmacher; zeigt b/f/v/w-Variation der Korb-Namen.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Körber?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.8 thousand people named Körber in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled körber. After it come United States, Austria, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Körber?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 94 people named Körber, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
- How common is Körber compared with other names?
- In Germany, Körber is the 884th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%B6rberThe 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, “Körber” — the 884th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.