Ímber

surname · Latin script

Ímber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational name from either of two places, one in Surrey, the other in Wiltshire.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 138K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 141K
  • CZCzechia1 in 465K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

504 people, 2010

Sources
29 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 138K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Imber in US United States, UY Uruguay.

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)

habitational name from either of two places, one in Surrey, the other in Wiltshire. The former is named in Old English as ‘Imma’s enclosure’ (see Worth); the latter as ‘Imma’s lake’ (from mere ‘lake’, ‘pond’).

Sources 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ímber 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.

Where Ímber is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5041 in 660K528Imber29
CH Switzerland611 in 138K61—3
UY Uruguay241 in 141K24Imber3
CZ Czechia231 in 465K23——
PL Poland161 in 2.4M8——

504 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 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

  • Sofía Ímberb. 1924VEVenezuelan journalist and cultural activist (1924–2017)

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 2 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Ímber mean, and where does it come from?
habitational name from either of two places, one in Surrey, the other in Wiltshire. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
In which country does Ímber have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 504 people named Ímber, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled imber.
Where is Ímber most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ímber is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 138 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ímber?
In the United States, the national register counted 504 people named Ímber in 2010, about 1 in 660 thousand residents.

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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, “Ímber”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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