Rebane
surname · Latin script
Meaning: red fox
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rebane is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Estonia than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common surname.
- EEEstonia1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 17K
- SESweden1 in 142K
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.
- Estonia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
1,127 people
Highest-authority source
Estonia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
red fox
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rebane 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | #6 | 1,127 | 1 in 1.1K | 1.1K | Rebane | 61 |
| FI Finland | — | 323 | 1 in 17K | 323 | Rebane | 12 |
| US United States | — | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | listed | Rebane | 60 |
| SE Sweden | — | 72 | 1 in 142K | 72 | Rebane | 13 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Rebane | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
1,127 people counted by Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register). 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: Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)
Rebane 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 Spanish, inflection of rebanar:
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)
- Hans Rebaneb. 1882EEEstonian politician, diplomat and journalist (1882-1961)
- Alfred Rebaneb. 1902EEEstonian actor (1902-1986)
- Alfons Rebaneb. 1908EEEstonian military personnel (1908–1976)
- Erich Rebaneb. 1922RURussian painter (1922-1999)
- Karl Rebaneb. 1926EEEstonian physicist (1926-2007)
- Ljubov Rebaneb. 1929EEEstonian physicist (1929–1991)
- Toomas Rebaneb. 1930EEEstonian physicist (born 1930)
- Bill Rebaneb. 1937LVAmerican politician and film director (born 1937)
- Helju Rebaneb. 1948EEEstonian writer (born 1948)
- Peeter Rebaneb. 1973EEEstonian film director, producer and entrepreneur (born April 1973)
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 1.1K | #10 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 1.1K | #8 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 1K | #11 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 323 | #5,033 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 72 | #9,409 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #61,410 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- What does the name Rebane mean, and where does it come from?
- red fox Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Rebane have the most bearers?
- In Estonia, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Rebane, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rebane.
- Where is Rebane most common?
- Rebane is densest in Estonia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rebane?
- In Estonia, the national register counted 1,127 people named Rebane, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Rebane compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Rebane is the 6th most common surname of 37,297 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rebaneThe 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, “Rebane” — the 6th most common surname in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.