Bobber
surname · Latin script
Meaning: One who takes part in apple bobbing
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbɑbɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bobber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
- RWRwanda≈1 in 21K
- CNChina≈1 in 726K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Rwanda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
One who takes part in apple bobbing.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bobber 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.
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 2020; 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 178 | #106,589 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 160 | #110,286 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 160 | #103,706 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 15 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 15 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 15 | #105,009 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 15 | #104,735 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Bobber mean, and where does it come from?
- One who takes part in apple bobbing. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bobber?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɑbɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bobber have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Bobber in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bobber.
- How common is the name Bobber?
- In the United States, the national register counted 160 people named Bobber in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bobberThe 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, “Bobber”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.