Gubler

surname · Latin script

Meaning: topographic name from the South German dialect term gubel ‘mountain crest’, ‘rocky outcrop’ + the -er suffix denoting an inhabitant

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

/ɣbleɾ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated

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

  • CHSwitzerland1 in 4.1K(measured from records)
  • AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 6.7Kfew records
  • NLNetherlands1 in 107K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Switzerland (measured from records)

2,055 people, 2024

Record sources
222 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

topographic name from the South German dialect term gubel ‘mountain crest’, ‘rocky outcrop’ + the -er suffix denoting an inhabitant.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where the surname Gubler is found

(measured from records)

Gubler 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 Gubler is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CH Switzerland—2,0551 in 4.1K2.1KGubler32
US United States—9481 in 351K1.4KGubler222
AO Angola#226≈320 est.≈1 in 119K—Gubler1
NL Netherlands—1621 in 107K162Gubler14
FR France—≈110 est.≈1 in 601K13—3
NZ New Zealand—≈72 est.≈1 in 73K—Gubler1
AG Antigua & Barbuda#217≈14 est.≈1 in 6.7K—Gubler1
TC Turks & Caicos Islands#154≈8 est.≈1 in 5.8K—Gubler1

2,055 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Gubler is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, Germany, United States, Netherlands

    Also written Gübler, Guebler

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Chile, Switzerland

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Gübler

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Switzerland, United States, Netherlands

    Also written Gübler

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gübler

39 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Gubler 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 German, from Gubel 'mountain ridge'

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

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)
18001850190019502000Adolphe-Marie Gubler, b. 1821Max Gubler, b. 1898Matthew Gray Gubler, b. 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).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalDear Gubler,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Gubler mean, and where does it come from?
topographic name from the South German dialect term gubel ‘mountain crest’, ‘rocky outcrop’ + the -er suffix denoting an inhabitant. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Gubler?
In Spanish /ɣbleɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Gubler?
In Switzerland, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Gubler, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gubler. After it come United States, Angola, Netherlands and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Gubler most common?
Gubler is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.1 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Gubler?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 2,055 people named Gubler in 2024, about 1 in 4.1 thousand residents.
How common is Gubler compared with other names?
In Turks & Caicos Islands, Gubler is the 154th most common surname of 3,662 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, “Gubler” — the 154th most common surname in Turks & Caicos Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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