Tobler
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A surname from Alemannic German
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈtoʊbəɫɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tobler is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- CHSwitzerland
- AUAustralia
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname from Tobel / tobel 'Waldschlucht'; also explained as origin from a farm/place named Tobel. Bearer count: Schweiz 1775, Österreich 97.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
How Tobler is read(measured from records)
Tobler 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.
- English69%
A surname from Alemannic German.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German11%
Toponymic surname from Tobel / tobel 'Waldschlucht'; also explained as origin from a farm/place named Tobel. Bearer count: Schweiz 1775, Österreich 97.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
- Spanish6.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tobler 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Titus Toblerb. 1806CHSwiss politician and explorer (1806-1877)
- Ludwig Toblerb. 1827CHSwiss germanist and linguist (1827-1895)
- Adolf Toblerb. 1835CHSwiss linguist (1835-1910)
- Theodor Toblerb. 1876CHSwiss entrepreneur (1876-1941)
- Anna Maria Toblerb. 1882CHSwiss artist (1882-1935)
- Robert Toblerb. 1901CHSwiss fascist politician (1901-1962)
- Waldo R. Toblerb. 1930USAmerican geographer (1930–2018)
- John Toblerb. 1943British music journalist
- Li Toblerb. 1948CHSwiss actress and model (1947–1975)
- Roger Toblerb. 1973ZASouth African rower
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 24 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Tobler come from?
- Toponymic surname from Tobel / tobel 'Waldschlucht'; also explained as origin from a farm/place named Tobel. Bearer count: Schweiz 1775, Österreich 97. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Tobler?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtoʊbəɫɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Tobler mean?
- In English, A surname from Alemannic German.
- In which country does Tobler have the most bearers?
- Tobler is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/toblerThe 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
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tobler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.