Grúber

surname · Latin script

Grúber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: topographic name for someone who lived in a depression or hollow, from (respectively) Middle High German gruobe, German Grube ‘pit’, ‘hollow’ -I- the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 3.5K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 13K
  • CZCzechia1 in 15K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

14,131 people, 2010

Sources
47 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

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:

Locally spelled Gruber in US United States, CH Switzerland, CZ Czechia and 1 more.

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)

topographic name for someone who lived in a depression or hollow, from (respectively) Middle High German gruobe, German Grube ‘pit’, ‘hollow’ -I- the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant. As a Jewish name it can also be one of names randomly distributed by government officials.

Sources 6

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • Családnevek enciklopédiája

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Grúber 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 Grúber is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—14,1311 in 24K14KGruber23
BR Brazil—2,4731 in 86K2.5K——
CH Switzerland—2,3741 in 3.5K2.4KGruber4
CZ Czechia—7261 in 15K728Gruber47
AR Argentina—5521 in 82K552—1
HR Croatia—1621 in 26K162——
SI Slovenia—1571 in 13K157——
SK Slovakia#978961 in 57K96Gruber17

14,131 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)

Grúber is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hungarian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

    Also written Gruber

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Romania, Italy

    Also written Gruber

  • Spanish surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Gruber, Grüber, Grůber

  • English surname32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, Arabic, Chinese

    Also written Gruber, Grüber, Grubers, Grůber

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Gruber, Grůber, Grüber

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Grúber
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)199596—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—6#108,016

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Grúber mean, and where does it come from?
topographic name for someone who lived in a depression or hollow, from (respectively) Middle High German gruobe, German Grube ‘pit’, ‘hollow’ -I- the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
In which country does Grúber have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Grúber, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gruber.
Where is Grúber most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Grúber is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 3.5 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Grúber?
In the United States, the national register counted 14,131 people named Grúber in 2010, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
How common is Grúber compared with other names?
In Slovakia, Grúber is the 978th most common surname of 69,668 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, “Grúber” — the 978th most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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