Gräbner

Name: Gräbner: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries

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

Gräbner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Austria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Grabner.

rarermore common

ATAustria≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
DEGermany≈1 in 52K
USUnited States1 in 549K

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 Gräbner 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.

: Austria (inferred from the name graph)
Record sources: 163 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Grabner in US United States, AT Austria and Graebner in IE Ireland.

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

Borrowed from German Grabner.

Cited for this meaning 2

Dictionary of American Family Names
Wiktionary

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Gräbner 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 Gräbner is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
AT Austria	#105	≈3,600 est.	≈1 in 2.5K	—	Grabner	102
DE Germany	—	≈1,600 est.	≈1 in 52K	—	Gräbner	80
US United States	—	606	1 in 549K	630	Grabner	163
BR Brazil	—	329	1 in 644K	329	—	2
SI Slovenia	—	269	1 in 7.8K	269	—	5
IE Ireland	—	≈60 est.	≈1 in 86K	—	Graebner	11
HR Croatia	—	34	1 in 124K	34	—	—

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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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

Gräbner is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate name3 spellings in the group
Also written Grábner, Grabner
Portuguese surname5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Panama
Languages: Portuguese, Spanish
Also written Grabner
French surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, United States, Burkina Faso
Also written Grabner
Croatian surname8 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Croatia, Slovenia, United States
Languages: Croatian, Slovenian
Also written Grabner, Грабнер
Norwegian surname8 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Norway, United States, Sweden, Denmark
Languages: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish
Also written Grabner
Polish surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Poland, United States
Also written Grabner
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Grabner

4 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

Johann Friedrich Gräbnerb. 1714DE1714-1794
Karl Gräbnerb. 1786RU1786-1845, German writer
Willi Gräbnerb. 1897DE(1897-1975)
Ottokar Gräbnerb. 1904DEGerman sculptor and painter (1904-1972)
Werner Gräbnerb. 1929DEGerman professional sports cyclist
Franz Adolf Gräbnerb. 1944DEGerman artist
Steffen Gräbnerb. 1957DEGerman actor
Daniel Gräbnerb. 1975DEGerman film director
Claudius Gräbner-Radkowitschb. 1989DEGerman economist
Gustav Adolf GräbnerGerman writer

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

FormalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Dear Gräbner, (English)

InformalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Hello, (English)

Evidence

8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.

Reference works 3

Wikipedia surname tokens
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.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Gräbner mean, and where does it come from?: Borrowed from German Grabner. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Gräbner?: A machine transcription gives /ɡʁɛbnɐ/ (IPA) for German.
In which country does Gräbner have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Gräbner in Austria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grabner.
How common is the name Gräbner?: In the United States, the national register counted 606 people named Gräbner in 2010, about 1 in 549 thousand residents.
How common is Gräbner compared with other names?: In Austria, Gräbner is the 105th most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.

What do you want to know about Gräbner?

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gr%C3%A4bner

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 2026-10-13 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, “Gräbner” — the 105th most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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