Grüber
surname · Latin script
Grüber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Austria it is the 3rd most common surname. 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.
- USUnited States1 in 24K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 75K
- ATAustria≈1 in 1M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 289 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
14,131 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gruber in DE Germany, AT Austria, US United States 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 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Grüber 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 14,131 | 1 in 24K | 14K | Gruber | 289 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,473 | 1 in 86K | 2.5K | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | #396 | 2,374 | 1 in 3.5K | 2.4K | Gruber | 77 |
| DE Germany | #153 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 75K | listed | Gruber | 181 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 726 | 1 in 15K | 728 | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | — | 162 | 1 in 26K | 162 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 157 | 1 in 13K | 157 | — | 5 |
| AT Austria | #3 | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Gruber | 162 |
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; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Johann Grueberb. 1623ATnot in their usual nameAustrian Jesuit missionary and explorer of China and Tibet (1623-1680), an imperial astronomer in China
- Cyprian Grueberb. 1691not in their usual namecleric and composer
- Benno Grueberb. 1759DEnot in their usual nameGerman musician, composer, and monk (1759-1796)
- Bernhard Grueberb. 1807DEnot in their usual nameGerman architect and art historian, working in Prague
- Albrecht Grueberb. 1847CZnot in their usual nameGerman painter (1847–1888)
- Heinrich Grüberb. 1891DEGerman politician and theologian (1891-1975)
- Martin Grüberb. 1937DEGerman politician
- Klaus Michael Grüberb. 1941DEGerman theatre director and actor (1941–2008)
- Lena GrüberDEartist from Germany
- Wesley B GrueberUSnot in their usual nameresearcher
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 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #230,421 |
Reference works 2
- 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 Grüber 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 Grüber have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Grüber, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gruber.
- Where is Grüber most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Grüber 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 Grüber?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,131 people named Grüber in 2010, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Grüber compared with other names?
- In Austria, Grüber is the 3rd most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gr%C3%BCberThe 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, “Grüber” — the 3rd most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.