Roeber

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Roeber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Röber.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 170Kas Rober(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 11Kas Rober
  • ECEcuador1 in 12Kas Rober

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Roeber 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.

United States (measured from records)

1,953 named Rober, 2020

Sources
203 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay, as Rober

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

RoberLatin(measured from records)

Locally spelled Rober 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)

Borrowed from German Röber.

Sources 1

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Roeber 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 Roeber is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,953as Rober1 in 170K1.9KRober203
VE Venezuela1,504as Rober1 in 19K1.5K—1
EC Ecuador1,423as Rober1 in 12K1.4K—13
BR Brazil605as Rober1 in 350K626—3
UY Uruguay306as Rober1 in 11K306——
CR Costa Rica28as Rober1 in 182K28——

1,953 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

Roeber is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Danish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Denmark

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Røber, Røbèr, Roebèr

32 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)

18001850190019502000Ernst Roeber, b. 1849Fritz Roeber, b. 1851Ernest Roeber, b. 1861Rebecca Roeber, b. 1958Nicholas Roeber, b. 1962Katrin Roeber, b. 1971

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 10 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Roeber
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020894#28,394
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000876#26,239
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010848#28,215
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—33#139,729
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • 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

What does the name Roeber mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from German Röber. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Roeber have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Rober, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Roeber most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Roeber itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Uruguay's: the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people named Rober.
How common is the name Roeber?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,953 people named Rober in 2020, about 1 in 170 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/roeber

The same 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), 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, “Roeber”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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