Gebauer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: status name for a landowner, from Middle High German gebure ‘neighboring farmer’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡəbawɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gebauer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 7.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 262K
- CZCzechia1 in 16K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
status name for a landowner, from Middle High German gebure ‘neighboring farmer’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gebauer 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 | #571 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Gebauer | 159 |
| US United States | — | 1,269 | 1 in 262K | 1.3K | Gebauer | 151 |
| PL Poland | — | 733 | 1 in 52K | 396 | Gebauer | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 654 | 1 in 16K | 656 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 380 | 1 in 557K | 380 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Gebauer | 36 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 142 | 1 in 59K | 142 | Gebauer | 29 |
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; MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)
Gebauer is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Ableitung von Bauer mit ge-/geh- und Kurzformen; morphologische Variantenbildung. 5380 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)
- Christian David Gebauerb. 1777DKDanish painter (1777-1831)
- Johann Christian Gebauerb. 1808DKDanish musician (1808-1884)
- Jan Gebauerb. 1838CZCzech linguist (1838-1907)
- Edwin Gebauerb. 1884DEGerman politician
- Gerhard Gebauerb. 1926DEGerman politician and jurist (1926-2017)
- Ulrich Gebauerb. 1956DEGerman actor
- Wendy Gebauerb. 1966USAmerican soccer player
- Yvonne Gebauerb. 1966DEGerman politician
- Thomas Gebauerb. 1983DEGerman footballer
- Christian Gebauerb. 1993ATassociation football player
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 32 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,921 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,806 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,436 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 656 | #1,518 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 656 | #2,160 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 654 | #2,238 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 396 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 396 | #8,380 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 380 | #21,688 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 337 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 337 | #9,666 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 142 | #8,314 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Gebauer mean, and where does it come from?
- status name for a landowner, from Middle High German gebure ‘neighboring farmer’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gebauer?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡəbawɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Gebauer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Gebauer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gebauer.
- How common is the name Gebauer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,269 people named Gebauer in 2010, about 1 in 262 thousand residents.
- How common is Gebauer compared with other names?
- In Germany, Gebauer is the 571st most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gebauerThe 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, “Gebauer” — the 571st most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.