Tretter
surname · Latin script
Meaning: BerufsN zum Treter von Blasebälgen an Orgeln; teils auch WohnstättenN zu mnd
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈtɹɛtɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tretter is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- ATAustria
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)BerufsN zum Treter von Blasebälgen an Orgeln; teils auch WohnstättenN zu mnd. trede 'Stufe, Weg'; 689 Träger.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Tretter is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Berufs- oder Übername zu treten 'treten'; Bearer counts: Tret(t)er 666, Treeter 18, Drether 5.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite plural of trette
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)- Anton Tretterb. 1866DEGerman photograher
- Franco Tretterb. 1944ITItalian politician
- Jean-Nickolaus Tretterb. 1946USAmerican LGBTQ archivist (1946–2022)
- Felix Tretterb. 1949ATAustrian psychotherapist and psychiatrist
- Christiane Tretterb. 1964DEGerman mathematician and mathematical physicist
- Mathias Tretterb. 1972DEGerman Kabarett artist and writer
- J. C. Tretterb. 1991USAmerican football player (born 1991)
- Sarah Tretterb. 1999DEGerman association football player
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,318 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,899 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #22,910 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 41 | #33,488 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 41 | #11,619 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 34 | #136,957 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 15 | #45,119 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 14 | #101,339 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 11 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 11 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 11 | #131,091 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 11 | #130,515 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Tretter?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtɹɛtɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tretter have the most bearers?
- Tretter is most frequently recorded in the United States.
- What does the name Tretter mean?
- Recorded meaning: BerufsN zum Treter von Blasebälgen an Orgeln; teils auch WohnstättenN zu mnd.
What do you want to know about Tretter?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tretterThe 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, “Tretter”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.