Kroeber
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Alfred L., US anthropologist
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɹoʊbɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kroeber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.9M(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 44Kas Kröber
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.5M
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 Kroeber 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 named Kröber, est.
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Krober in CH Switzerland, LR Liberia, SG Singapore and 1 more and Kröber in DE Germany.
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)
Alfred L., US anthropologist
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kroeber 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Kröber | 70 |
| US United States | 177 | 1 in 1.9M | 197 | Kroeber | 111 |
| AO Angola | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 241K | — | Krober | 1 |
| IN India | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | Kroeber | 3 |
| LR Liberia | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Krober | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Kroeber | 23 |
| CH Switzerland | 6as Kröber | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | Krober | 3 |
| SG Singapore | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Krober | 1 |
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). 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)
- Auguste Kroeberb. 1830FRFrench archivist and historian
- Adolf Kroeberb. 1867DEGerman engineer
- Alfred Kroeberb. 1876USAmerican anthropologist (1876–1960)
- Hans Timotheus Kroeberb. 1883DEart historian
- Theodora Kroeberb. 1897USAmerican anthropologist (1897–1979)
- Karl Kroeberb. 1926USAmerican literary scholar
- Ursula K. Le Guinb. 1929USnot in their usual nameAmerican fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)
- Carlos Kroeberb. 1934BRBrazilian actor
- Burkhart Kroeberb. 1940DEGerman translator and writer (born 1940)
- Joe KroeberUSAmerican politician
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 6 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 197 | #98,501 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 193 | #89,172 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 177 | #101,737 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Kroeber mean, and where does it come from?
- Alfred L., US anthropologist Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Kroeber?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹoʊbɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kroeber have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Kröber in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kroeber?
- In the United States, the national register counted 177 people named Kroeber in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kroeberThe 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, “Kroeber”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.