Zaber
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A tributary of the river Neckar in Germany
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Zaber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 118K(measured from records)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 240K
- DKDenmark1 in 587K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 112 (measured from records)
- 1 in 118K (inferred from the name graph)
324 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A tributary of the river Neckar in Germany.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zaber 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 324 | 1 in 118K | 163 | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 867K | — | Zaber | 7 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 240K | listed | — | 1 |
| IN India | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 8.8M | — | Zaber | 7 |
| US United States | 111 | 1 in 3M | 143 | Zaber | 112 |
| FR France | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 644K | 7 | — | 3 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 190K | — | Zaber | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 10 | 1 in 587K | 10 | — | — |
324 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the dz-kaggle-names register. 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 143 | #125,732 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 121 | #129,619 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 111 | #148,347 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 11 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10 | #40,340 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 7 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Zaber mean, and where does it come from?
- A tributary of the river Neckar in Germany. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Zaber have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 324 people named Zaber, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Zaber most common?
- Zaber is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 118 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zaber?
- In Poland, the national register counted 324 people named Zaber in 2026, about 1 in 118 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zaberThe 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, “Zaber”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.