Möbus
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymic surname with Latin nominative ending -us; shows vowel/umlaut and -bus variation
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/møːbʊs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Möbus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 46K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 442K
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 Möbus 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)
- Record sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Moebus in AU Australia, GB United Kingdom, CH Switzerland and 1 more and Mobus in US United States.
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)Patronymic surname with Latin nominative ending -us; shows vowel/umlaut and -bus variation. 1365 bearers.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Möbus 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 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Möbus | 69 |
| US United States | 203 | 1 in 1.6M | 206 | Mobus | 113 |
| BR Brazil | 59as Moebus | 1 in 3.6M | 59 | — | — |
| AU Australia | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 478K | — | Moebus | 32 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Moebus | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 19 | 1 in 442K | 19 | Moebus | 5 |
| AT Austria | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 519K | — | Moebus | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 7as Moebus | 1 in 838K | 7 | — | — |
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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Möbus 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, Kurzform zu (Bartholo)maeus aus aram. bar Tolmai 'Sohn des Tolmai'; Patronym auf -us.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)- Martin Möbusb. 1917PLGerman officer and Knight's Cross recipient (1917-1944)
- Günter Möbusb. 1923DEGerman geologist (1923-2009)
- Karlheinz Möbusb. 1938DEGerman ambassador and diplomat (1938-2014)
- Walter Möbusb. 1947DEGerman politician of the CDU
- Christiane Möbusb. 1947DEGerman sculptor
- Peter Möbusb. 1954DEGerman painter
- Frank Möbusb. 1966DEGerman jazz guitarist
- Hendrik Möbusb. 1976DEGerman metal musician, neo-Nazi and convicted murderer
- Ronald Möbusb. 2000DEGerman musician and right-wing extremist
- Julius MöbusCHSwiss photographer in Zürich
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 19 | #37,994 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Möbus come from?
- Patronymic surname with Latin nominative ending -us; shows vowel/umlaut and -bus variation. 1365 bearers. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen.
- How do you pronounce Möbus?
- A machine transcription gives /møːbʊs/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Möbus mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronymic surname with Latin nominative ending -us; shows vowel/umlaut and -bus variation.
- In which country does Möbus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Möbus in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled möbus.
- How common is the name Möbus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 203 people named Möbus 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, “Möbus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.