Tauber
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tauber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In English, recorded as may mean pigeon breeder, horn player, or a nickname for a deaf or stupid person.
- DEGermany≈1 in 29K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 123K
- ILIsrael1 in 12Kas טאובר
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tauber 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 282 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled טאובר in IL Israel, RO Romania, LB Lebanon.
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)
may mean pigeon breeder, horn player, or a nickname for a deaf or stupid person.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tauber is read(measured from records)
Tauber is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English62%
may mean pigeon breeder, horn player, or a nickname for a deaf or stupid person.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- German16%
male pigeon or dove (cock pigeon, cock-pigeon, he-pigeon, cock dove, cock-dove, he-dove)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Grundform; Südhälfte Deutschlands, v.a. Nürnberg, Zwickau, Frankfurt/Main, 1106 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
- Spanish7.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tauber in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tauber 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 29K | listed | Tauber | 110 |
| US United States | 2,708 | 1 in 123K | 2.7K | Tauber | 282 |
| RO Romania | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | טאובר | 2 |
| IL Israel | 696as טאובר | 1 in 12K | 696 | טאובר | 27 |
| AT Austria | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Tauber | 64 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | טאובר | 2 |
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; the dfa-band-2 register; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Richard Tauberb. 1891ATAustrian tenor (1891-1948)
- Maria Tauberováb. 1911CZnot in their usual nameCzech actress (1911–2003)
- Hans Tauberb. 1921DEGerman politician (1921-2007)
- Alfred I. Tauberb. 1947USAmerican philosopher
- Bernd Tauberb. 1950DEGerman actor
- Nicolás Tauberb. 1956ARArgentine footballer
- Ulrike Tauberb. 1958DEEast German swimmer
- Peter Tauberb. 1974DEGerman politician
- Martin Tauberb. 1976ATAustrian cross-country skier
- Marina Tauberb. 1986MDMoldovan politician
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 29 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.7K | #11,595 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.5K | #12,043 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #12,941 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 2 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
- What does the name Tauber mean, and where does it come from?
- may mean pigeon breeder, horn player, or a nickname for a deaf or stupid person. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Tauber have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Tauber in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tauber.
- How common is the name Tauber?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,708 people named Tauber in 2010, about 1 in 123 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
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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, “Tauber”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.