Naber
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a maker of wheel hubs
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈneɪbɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Naber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 18K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 34K
- USUnited States1 in 129K
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)
- Sources
- 264 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
occupational name for a maker of wheel hubs. Middle High German nabeger, from nabe ‘hub’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Naber 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 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 232K | — | Naber | 3 |
| US United States | 2,571 | 1 in 129K | 2.6K | Naber | 264 |
| DE Germany | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Naber | 90 |
| NL Netherlands | 952 | 1 in 18K | 952 | Naber | 44 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Naber | 1 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Naber | 4 |
| AT Austria | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Naber | 18 |
| EE Estonia | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 25 | Naber | 6 |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)
Naber 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.
nickname from Low German Naber ‘neighbor’. Compare Neighbor.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a personal name given in honor of St. Nabor; or a habitational name from a place in Alsace. In Wiirttemberg there is a place name Nabem, derived from the river name Naber, which might have contributed to the surname.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Turkish, what's up (greeting used to ask for information)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nds (Germany), neighbour
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)
- Samuel Adrianus Naberb. 1828NLDutch classical philologist
- Johanna Naberb. 1859NLDutch author and historian, editor (1859-1941)
- Conrad Naberb. 1922DEGerman entrepreneur (1922–2018)
- Bob Naberb. 1929USProfessional basketball player (1929-1998)
- Hermann Naberb. 1933DEGerman writer (1933–2012)
- John Naberb. 1956USAmerican swimmer
- Sabina Naberb. 1965ATAustrian actress
- Johannes Naberb. 1971DEGerman documentary filmmaker and film director
- Gijs Naberb. 1980NLDutch actor
- Omar Naberb. 1981SISlovenian singer
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 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.6K | #12,124 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,551 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #12,868 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 952 | #1,811 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 25 | #4,459 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 23 | #4,700 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
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 Naber come from?
- occupational name for a maker of wheel hubs. Middle High German nabeger, from nabe ‘hub’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Naber?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈneɪbɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Naber mean?
- Recorded meaning: occupational name for a maker of wheel hubs.
- In which country does Naber have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.0 thousand people named Naber in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled naber.
- Where is Naber most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Naber is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Naber?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,571 people named Naber in 2010, about 1 in 129 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/naberThe 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, “Naber”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.