Grobler
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡɹɑbɫɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Grobler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 77K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 258K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Grobler 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #115 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Grobler | 110 |
| NA Namibia | #536 | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Grobler | 9 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Grobler | 86 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 302K | — | Grobler | 51 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 258K | — | Grobler | 93 |
| US United States | — | 148 | 1 in 2.2M | 206 | Grobler | 135 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Grobler | 45 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 57 | 1 in 37K | 57 | — | 3 |
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; 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Grobler 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 Afrikaans, Germanic roots suggesting "grove" or "hedge".
as a wordsanames.co.za — South African surnames
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)
- Melanie Groblerb. 1942ZASouth African poet
- Adam Groblerb. 1949PLPolish philosopher
- J.E.H. Groblerb. 1951ZASouth African historian
- Piet Groblerb. 1959ZASouth African illustrator (born 1959)
- St. Luciab. 1970USnot in their usual nameSouth African singer and musician
- Ana Groblerb. 1976SISlovenian painter
- Ursula Groblerb. 1980ZASouth African rower
- Stephanus Groblerb. 1982ZAcricketer
- Bradley Groblerb. 1988ZAfootballer
- Marinka GroblerSIresearcher
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 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 206 | #95,069 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 148 | #117,480 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 57 | #6,958 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
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 Grobler?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɹɑbɫɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Grobler have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Grobler in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grobler.
- How common is the name Grobler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 148 people named Grobler in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
- How common is Grobler compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Grobler is the 115th most common surname of 285,788 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Grobler?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/groblerThe 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, “Grobler” — the 115th most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.