Gråf
surname · Latin script
Gråf is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Middle High German grâve, from Old High German grāfio. Gråf is also written গৌরব in Bengali, กราฟ in Thai and ଗୌରବ in Odia.
- INIndia≈1 in 1.8Kas Gaurav(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 16Kfew recordsas Gaurav
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 20Kas Gaurav
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 Gråf itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 393 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈830,000 named Gaurav, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est., as Gaurav
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Gråf in other scripts: Latin, Bengali, Thai and 4 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Gaurav in IN India, AU Australia, MY Malaysia and 2 more, Graf in US United States and Gourab in BD Bangladesh.
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
(measured from records)- Middle High Germangrâve(measured from records)
- Old High Germangrāfio(measured from records)
Inherited from Middle High German grâve, from Old High German grāfio.
Cited for this meaning 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
- Wiktionary
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 32 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gråf 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #129 | ≈830,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 3.8K | Gaurav | 310 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Gaurav | 40 |
| US United States | — | 4,525as Gaurav | 1 in 74K | 14K | Graf | 393 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Gourab | 30 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Gaurav | 25 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 1 | Gaurav | 141 |
| SG Singapore | #746 | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Gaurav | 73 |
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: The Indian name database provides a list of popular Indian surnames and first names categorized by gender and frequency,; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gråf mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Middle High German grâve, from Old High German grāfio. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 5 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people named Gråf?
- Mondonomo estimates about 829 thousand people named Gaurav in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Indonesia, United States, Bangladesh and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Gråf?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,525 people named Gaurav in 2020, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
- How common is Gråf compared with other names?
- In India, Gråf is the 129th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gr%C3%A5fThe 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, “Gråf” — ranked 9th in India (The Indian name database provides a list of popular Indian surnames and first names categorized by gender and frequency,). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.