Strub
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nach persönlichem Merkmal: Variante zu Straub, aus mhd (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Strub is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country: 1,496 people, counted by BFS in 2024.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 5.6K(measured from records)
- AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 16Kfew records
- FRFrance≈1 in 51K
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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 220 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
1,496 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)nach persönlichem Merkmal: Variante zu Straub, aus mhd. strūp/strūben 'struppig, rau emporstehend'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Where the surname Strub is found
(measured from records)Strub 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #472 | 1,496 | 1 in 5.6K | 1.5K | Strub | 50 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 51K | 159 | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 1,308 | 1 in 254K | 1.3K | Strub | 220 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Strub | 67 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 199K | — | Strub | 50 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #503 | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Strub | 1 |
| LI Liechtenstein | #112 | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 8 | Strub | 7 |
1,496 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames). 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)Strub 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, Übername zu mhd. strub/strûb ‘struppig, rau, ungekämmt’; persönliches Merkmal (v. a. Haar/Äußeres).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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)- Emil Strubb. 1858CHSwiss railway pioneer (1858-1909)
- David Strubb. 1897LILiechtensteiner politician (1897-1985)
- Max Strubb. 1900DEGerman concertmaster (1900-1966)
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Strub mean?
- Recorded meaning: nach persönlichem Merkmal: Variante zu Straub, aus mhd.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Strub?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Strub, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled strub. After it come France, United States, Germany and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Strub most common?
- Strub is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Strub?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,496 people named Strub in 2024, about 1 in 5.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Strub compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Strub is the 472nd most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/strubThe 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, “Strub” — ranked 701st in Switzerland (BFS, 2024). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.