Gabler
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a tax collector or usurer
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡeɪbəɫɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gabler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 142K
- ATAustria≈1 in 23K
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
- 260 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
occupational name for a tax collector or usurer. Old French gabelier, gableor, a derivative of gable ‘tax’, ‘revenue’, of Germanic origin.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gabler 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Gabler | 2 |
| DE Germany | #871 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | Gabler | 113 |
| US United States | — | 2,347 | 1 in 142K | 2.3K | Gabler | 260 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 407K | — | Gabler | 5 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Gabler | 34 |
| PL Poland | — | 365 | 1 in 105K | 190 | Gabler | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 116 | 1 in 72K | 116 | Gabler | 20 |
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; the dfa-band-5 register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gabler is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
occupational name for a maker of forks, from an agent derivative of Middle High German gabel(e), German Gabel ‘fork’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
habitational name for someone from a place called Gabel in German, Jablone in Czech (see Gabel 3).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, Berufsname zu mhd. gabel(e), mnd. gaffel(e) 'Mist-, Heu-)Gabel, Krücke'; auf Schnitzer oder Benutzer bezogen. Bearer count: 2215.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Berufsname: wohl zum Hersteller/Benutzer von Gabeln; Bearer count nicht genannt.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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)
- Johann Philipp Gablerb. 1753DEGerman theologian
- Christoph August Gablerb. 1765DEGerman composer (1767-1839)
- Christoph August Gablerb. 1820EEBaltic German architect (1820-1884)
- Milt Gablerb. 1911USAmerican record producer (1911–2001)
- Ulrich Gablerb. 1913DEGerman shipbuilding engineer and World War II U-boat chief engineer
- John Gablerb. 1930USAmerican baseball player
- Neal Gablerb. 1950USAmerican journalist
- Dagmar Gablerb. 1966DEGerman screenwriter
- Kathrin Gablerb. 1984DEGerman egyptologist
- Deboragh Gablerfilm producer
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)
Attested in 31 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.3K | #13,081 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,328 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,525 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 190 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 190 | #17,225 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 175 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 175 | #18,269 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 116 | #9,835 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Gabler come from?
- occupational name for a tax collector or usurer. Old French gabelier, gableor, a derivative of gable ‘tax’, ‘revenue’, of Germanic origin. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gabler?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡeɪbəɫɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Gabler mean?
- Recorded meaning: occupational name for a tax collector or usurer.
- In which country does Gabler have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Gabler in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gabler.
- How common is the name Gabler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,347 people named Gabler in 2010, about 1 in 142 thousand residents.
- How common is Gabler compared with other names?
- In Germany, Gabler is the 871st 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/gablerThe 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, “Gabler” — the 871st most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.