Laber
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Laber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: topographic name for someone living near the Laber river in Bavaria.
- DEGermany≈1 in 80K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 348K
- ATAustria≈1 in 47K
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 Laber 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
- 202 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, 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)
topographic name for someone living near the Laber river in Bavaria.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Laber 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 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Laber | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Laber | 84 |
| US United States | 956 | 1 in 348K | 1.1K | Laber | 202 |
| BR Brazil | 370as Laeber | 1 in 572K | 370 | Laber | 28 |
| AT Austria | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Laber | 29 |
| CH Switzerland | 35 | 1 in 240K | 35 | Laber | 10 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | Laber | 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Laber is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, first-person singular present passive subjunctive of labō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, moderate (bris / breeze)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, weak, moderate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, nice
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)
- Heinrich Laberb. 1880DEGerman conductor
- Jeri Laberb. 1931USAmerican activist
- Manfred Laberb. 1932DEartist
- Stanisław Laberb. 1941PLPolish engineer
- Gerhard Laberb. 1946ATAustrian musician
- Bernhard LaberDEGerman racing driver
- Sandra LaberATAustrian association football player
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,280 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 973 | #24,162 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 956 | #25,771 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 86 | #70,869 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Laber mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone living near the Laber river in Bavaria. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Laber have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Laber in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laber.
- How common is the name Laber?
- In the United States, the national register counted 956 people named Laber in 2010, about 1 in 348 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laberThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Laber”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.