Gebreab

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/dʒbɹeɪb/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 35K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 105K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 117K

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.

Norway (measured from records)

158 people

Sources
60 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gebreab 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 Gebreab is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway1581 in 35K158—4
US United States1061 in 3.1M166Gebreab60
SE Sweden971 in 105K97Gebreab5
CH Switzerland721 in 117K72—1
NL Netherlands≈35 est.≈1 in 496K—Gebreab4
DK Denmark131 in 451K13——

158 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

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

  • Amharic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, United States, Netherlands, Sweden

    Also written ገብረአብ, ገብሬአብ

31 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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Mr Gebreab,
InformalHi Gebreab,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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

How do you pronounce Gebreab?
A machine transcription gives /dʒbɹeɪb/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Gebreab have the most bearers?
In Norway, the national register counted about 158 people named Gebreab, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Gebreab most common?
Gebreab is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 35 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Gebreab?
In Norway, the national register counted 158 people named Gebreab, about 1 in 35 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, “Gebreab”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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