Rabben

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025

/rɑbbn̩/(machine-generated) Norwegian · model-generated

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Rabben is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country: 1,396 people, counted by SSB.

  • NONorway1 in 3.9K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 1.7M
  • DKDenmark≈1 in 460Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Norway (measured from records)

1,396 people

Record sources
54 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

How to pronounce Rabben

  • Norwegian:/rɑbbn̩/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where the surname Rabben is found

(measured from records)

Rabben 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 Rabben is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway#7311,3961 in 3.9K1.4KRabben54
US United States—≈61 est.≈1 in 5.6MlistedRabben26
DK Denmark—≈13 est.≈1 in 456K—Rabben5
SE Sweden—61 in 1.7M6Rabben6
GB United Kingdom—≈2 est.≈1 in 45M—Rabben1

1,396 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

Rabben is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Rabbén

  • Finnish name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Rabbén

22 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1900192019401960Bjarne Rabben, b. 1907Mascha Rabben, b. 1949Jan Rabben, b. 1952

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)
FormalKjære ,Dear Rabben, (English)
InformalKjære ,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Rabben?
In Norwegian /rɑbbn̩/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Rabben?
In Norway, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Rabben, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rabben. After it come United States, Denmark, Sweden and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Rabben most common?
Rabben is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.9 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Rabben?
In Norway, the national register counted 1,396 people named Rabben, about 1 in 3.9 thousand residents.
How common is Rabben compared with other names?
In Norway, Rabben is the 731st most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Rabben” — ranked 752nd in Norway (SSB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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