Graeve

surname · Latin script

Meaning: variant of Graef

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 29Kas Grave(inferred from the name graph)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 47Kas Grave
  • BEBelgium1 in 273Kas Grave

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Graeve itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,800 people, est.

Sources
237 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 208K (inferred from the name graph)

Austria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GraveLatin(measured from records)

Locally spelled Grave in US United States, DE Germany, NL Netherlands.

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)

variant of Graef.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Graeve 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 Graeve is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈3,800 est.≈1 in 363K—Graeve1
FR France—≈2,300 est.≈1 in 29K290Graeve123
DE Germany—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 47KlistedGrave98
BR Brazil—1,389as Grave1 in 152K1.4K—3
US United States—705as Grave1 in 472K776Grave237
NL Netherlands—560as Grave1 in 31K560Grave38
NO Norway—316as Grave1 in 17K316—9
DK Denmark—125as Grave1 in 47K125—2
BE Belgium#41243as Grave1 in 273K43Graeve76
AT Austria—≈43 est.≈1 in 208K—Graeve13

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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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)

Graeve is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Graëve

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Graëve

  • Norwegian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Belgium

    Languages: Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Grævë, Graevë

28 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

16001700180019002000Johann Georg Graevius, b. 1632Volkmar von Graeve, b. 1938Rebecca Orendorz, b. 1993

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 Graeve,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Graeve
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020421#53,103
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000392#50,178
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010390#53,072
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20077#71,587
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Graeve mean, and where does it come from?
variant of Graef. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Graeve?
A machine transcription gives /ɡɹæiv/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Graeve have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Graeve in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled graeve.
How common is the name Graeve?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,389 people named Grave, about 1 in 152 thousand residents.
How common is Graeve compared with other names?
In Belgium, Graeve is the 412th most common surname of 246,397 surnames recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/graeve

The 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, “Graeve” — the 412th most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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