Burggraf

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Occupational surname: castle count/administrator (13 types, 1066 tokens) (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/ˈbʊrkɡraːf/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary

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Burggraf is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

  • DEGermany≈1 in 42K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 420K
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 440Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,000 people, est.

Record sources
153 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Dominica, est.

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:

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.

How to pronounce Burggraf

  • German:/ˈbʊrkɡraːf/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Occupational surname: castle count/administrator (13 types, 1066 tokens).

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Burggraf is found

(measured from records)

Burggraf 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 Burggraf is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany—≈2,000 est.≈1 in 42K—Burggraf94
US United States—6151 in 541K615Burggraf153
KE Kenya—≈170 est.≈1 in 326K—Burggraf1
GB United Kingdom—≈140 est.≈1 in 499K—Burggraf26
AT Austria—≈110 est.≈1 in 81K—Burggraf19
SG Singapore—≈44 est.≈1 in 137K—Burggraf1
DM Dominica#274≈24 est.≈1 in 2.8K—Burggraf1
BZ Belize—≈2 est.≈1 in 185K—Burggraf1

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. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Burggraf is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Burggräf

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Burggraf is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, a male burgrave (a military governor or commander of a castle, fortress or medieval fortified town, especially within the Holy Roman Empire), similar to a French chatelain or Late Middle English castellan

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, Berufsname: zum Burggrafen gehörig bzw. von ihm abhängig; Amtsname 'Burggraf' (Burgverwalter/-herr). Bearer count: 1066.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

  • In German, burgrave; also 'town reeve'

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
19201930194019501960Hans Burggraf, b. 1927Ray Burggraf, b. 1938Jutta Burggraf, b. 1952

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)
FormalDear Burggraf,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Burggraf mean, and where does it come from?
Occupational surname: castle count/administrator (13 types, 1066 tokens). Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
What are other forms of the name Burggraf?
In the etymology graph, Burg is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Burggraf?
In German /ˈbʊrkɡraːf/ (Wiktionary).
Which countries have the most people with the surname Burggraf?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Burggraf in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled burggraf. After it come United States, Kenya, United Kingdom and Austria; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Burggraf?
In the United States, the national register counted 615 people named Burggraf in 2010, about 1 in 541 thousand residents.
How common is Burggraf compared with other names?
In Dominica, Burggraf is the 274th most common surname of 841 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Burggraf” — the 274th most common surname in Dominica. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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