Wohlrab
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Typ im thüringisch-sächsisch-bayerischen Grenzgebiet und Raum Würzburg; zeigt labiale Verschluss-/Frikativvariation
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Wohlrab is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 45K(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 345K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 350K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Typ im thüringisch-sächsisch-bayerischen Grenzgebiet und Raum Würzburg; zeigt labiale Verschluss-/Frikativvariation.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wohlrab 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 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Wohlrab | 92 |
| US United States | 304 | 1 in 1.1M | 304 | Wohlrab | 119 |
| PL Poland | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 483K | — | Wohlrab | 1 |
| GH Ghana | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 665K | — | Wohlrab | 3 |
| AT Austria | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 259K | — | Wohlrab | 20 |
| CZ Czechia | 31 | 1 in 345K | 32 | — | — |
| LR Liberia | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 168K | — | Wohlrab | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 351K | listed | — | 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end). 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)Wohlrab 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, Kompositum mit Rabe; zeigt b/f/v/w-Variation. Beleg: 11 Typen/1400 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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)- Martin Wohlrabb. 1834DEGerman classical philologist and teacher (1834-1913)
- Rudolf Wohlrabb. 1909GBGerman epidemiologist (1909-1995)
- Leopold Wohlrabb. 1912ATAustrian handball player (1912–1981)
- Hertha Wohlrabb. 1924ATAustrian historian
- Lutz Wohlrabb. 1959DEGerman psychoanalyst
- Marion Wohlrabb. 1974DEGerman speed skater
- DJ Blackskinb. 2000DEnot in their usual nameGerman disc jockey
- Sylke WohlrabDEresearcher
- Rebekka WohlrabSEresearcher
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 304 | #65,244 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 287 | #64,750 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 279 | #74,639 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 32 | #12,930 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 31 | #40,393 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Wohlrab mean?
- Recorded meaning: Typ im thüringisch-sächsisch-bayerischen Grenzgebiet und Raum Würzburg; zeigt labiale Verschluss-/Frikativvariation.
- In which country does Wohlrab have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Wohlrab in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wohlrab.
- How common is the name Wohlrab?
- In the United States, the national register counted 304 people named Wohlrab in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wohlrabThe 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, “Wohlrab”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.