Gräter
surname · Latin script
Gräter is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old French grateor. See grate.
- DEGermany≈1 in 146K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 607K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 180K
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 Gräter 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)
- Sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 146K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Graeter in NO Norway, PK Pakistan, CN China and 1 more and Grater in US United States, SG Singapore, DZ Algeria.
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)
From Old French grateor. See grate.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gräter 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 969K | — | Graeter | 2 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 419K | — | Graeter | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 146K | — | Gräter | 44 |
| US United States | 548 | 1 in 607K | 600 | GRATEr | 163 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 180K | — | GRATEr | 1 |
| ML Mali | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Graeter | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | GRATEr | 2 |
| NO Norway | 16as Graeter | 1 in 342K | 16 | Graeter | 5 |
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). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kaspar Gräterb. 1501DEGerman theologian
- Friedrich David Gräterb. 1768DEGerman writer (1768-1830)
- Carlheinz Gräterb. 1937DEGerman journalist
- Siegfried Gräterb. 1939DEGerman association football player
- Joachim Gräterb. 1956DEPh.D. Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig 1980
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- 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 Gräter mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old French grateor. See grate. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- In which country does Gräter have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Gräter in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled graeter.
- How common is the name Gräter?
- In the United States, the national register counted 548 people named Gräter in 2010, about 1 in 607 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gräter?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gr%C3%A4terThe 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, “Gräter”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.