Biber

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Turkish: pepper (vegetable, plant, and spice)

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 14K
  • HRCroatia1 in 17K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

≈5,900 people, est.

Sources
63 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from the animal name ‘beaver’; also via nd. Bever

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

How Biber is read(measured from records)

Biber is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Turkish54%

    pepper (vegetable, plant, and spice)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English21%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Biber in English.

  • German11%

    from the animal name ‘beaver’; also via nd. Bever

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

    beaver

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Biber 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 Biber is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye≈5,900 est.≈1 in 14K—Biber63
US United States5111 in 651K554Biber32
PL Poland4431 in 86K228——
CH Switzerland2691 in 31K269Biber5
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina≈270 est.≈1 in 14K—Biber4
HR Croatia2481 in 17K248——
SI Slovenia571 in 37K57——

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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)

Biber is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, Austria

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Bibër, Bïbër

  • Croatian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Türkiye

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Бибер

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Peru, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Bibér, Bïber, Bìbèr, Bîber

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Switzerland

    Also written Bîber, Bïbër, Bîbër, Bibér

  • Russian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Бибер, Бібер, Bieber, Биебер

  • Hebrew surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Romania, Lebanon

    Also written ביבר, בבר, Bieber, Beber, Bîber

35 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Biber is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Serbo-Croatian, pepper (spice)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In szl, beaver (mammal of the genus Castor)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, a drink, beverage.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

16001700180019002000Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, b. 1644Carl Heinrich Biber, b. 1681Ludwig Biber, b. 1873Alfons Biber, b. 1920Dušan Biber, b. 1926Douglas Biber, b. 1952Volodymyr Biber, b. 1954Ina Biber, b. 1969Zsolt Bíber, b. 1976Alexander Biber, b. 1984

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)

FormalSayın Biber,Dear , (English)
InformalSayın Biber,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Biber
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020554#42,180
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000527#39,304
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010511#42,455
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024269#4,853
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021248#3,333
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026228—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—228#14,268
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021218—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026215—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—215#15,326
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—57#6,958
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

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

Where does the name Biber come from?
from the animal name ‘beaver’; also via nd. Bever Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
How do you pronounce Biber?
A machine transcription gives /bibeɾ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
What does the name Biber mean?
In Turkish, pepper (vegetable, plant, and spice)
In which country does Biber have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 5.9 thousand people named Biber in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled biber.
How common is the name Biber?
In the United States, the national register counted 511 people named Biber in 2010, about 1 in 651 thousand residents.

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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, “Biber”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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