Waber

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/wɔbɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Waber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 186K
  • CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 197K

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 Waber 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.

Switzerland (measured from records)

1,301 named Waeber, 2024

Sources
130 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 186K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Waeber in CH Switzerland, FR France.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Waber 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 Waber is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CH Switzerland#4101,301as Waeber1 in 6.5K1.3KWaeber38
CD Congo - Kinshasa—≈520 est.≈1 in 197K—Waber1
DE Germany—≈360 est.≈1 in 225K—Waber48
US United States—1881 in 1.8M240Waber130
FR France—≈73 est.≈1 in 927K7Waeber90
FI Finland—301 in 186K30—1
NZ New Zealand—≈24 est.≈1 in 207K—Waber1

1,301 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

Waber is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, Brazil, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Wäber

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Wäber

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Switzerland, United States, Belgium

    Also written Wäber

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Wäber

27 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)

186018801900192019401960Leopold Waber, b. 1875Bernhard Waber, b. 1884Bernard Waber, b. 1924Linde Waber, b. 1940Christian Waber, b. 1948Thomas Waber, b. 1955

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)

FormalDear Waber,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Waber
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024473#2,747
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000240#74,957
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020221#89,848
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010188#96,799
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#38,868
US United Stateswru 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)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Waber?
A machine transcription gives /wɔbɝ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Waber have the most bearers?
In Switzerland, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Waeber, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Waber most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Waber is densest in Finland — about 1 in 186 thousand people — even though Switzerland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Waber?
In the United States, the national register counted 188 people named Waber in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
How common is Waber compared with other names?
In Switzerland, Waber is the 410th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.

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The 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, “Waber” — the 410th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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