Kaber

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

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

Kaber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant of Kabir.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
  • CNChina≈1 in 77K
  • LYLibya≈1 in 102K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈18,000 people, est.

Record sources
128 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 77K (inferred from the name graph)

China, 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

(measured from records)

variant of Kabir.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Kaber 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 Kaber is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈18,000 est.≈1 in 77K—Kaber1
PK Pakistan≈330 est.≈1 in 698K—Kaber8
IN India≈280 est.≈1 in 4.7M1Kaber9
US United States2101 in 1.6M274Kaber128
EG Egypt≈190 est.≈1 in 541K—Kaber16
SY Syria≈130 est.≈1 in 152K—Kaber7
LY Libya≈68 est.≈1 in 102K—Kaber7
KW Kuwait≈24 est.≈1 in 123K—Kaber3
EE Estonia≈11 est.≈1 in 117K18—2

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; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)

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

  • Urdu surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, India, United Kingdom, United States

    Languages: Urdu, Hindi

    Also written Käber

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Käber

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Kabèr

  • Swahili surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa

    Also written Käber

35 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)

Kaber 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 Estonian, deer

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)
1900195020002050Helmi Kaber, b. 1901Danièle Kaber, b. 1960Peeter Kaber, b. 1961Georg Kaber, b. 2002

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 Kaber,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.

Reference works 3

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 Kaber mean, and where does it come from?
variant of Kabir. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Kaber?
A machine transcription gives /kəbɝ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Kaber have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Kaber in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaber.
How common is the name Kaber?
In the United States, the national register counted 210 people named Kaber in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.

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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, “Kaber”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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