Staaf
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Dutch: a bar, rod (solid metal object)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/stəæf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Staaf is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 8K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 57K
- NONorway1 in 124K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)
1,275 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a bar, rod (solid metal object)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Staaf is read(measured from records)
Staaf is one spelling over 4 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.
- English51%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Staaf in English.
- Swedish24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Staaf in Swedish.
- Dutch17%
a bar, rod (solid metal object)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German8.8%
Wahrscheinlich Amtsname: stabtragender Beamter. Bearer count: 26.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Staaf 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #753 | 1,275 | 1 in 8K | 1.3K | Staaf | 43 |
| US United States | — | 154 | 1 in 2.2M | 173 | Staaf | 7 |
| FI Finland | — | 97 | 1 in 57K | 97 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 44 | 1 in 124K | 44 | Staaf | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | 10 | Staaf | 4 |
1,275 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Staaf 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.
Dutch: short form of Gustaaf (see GUSTAV ).
as a word
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)
- Karl Staafb. 1881SESwedish athlete (1881–1953)
- Harry Staafb. 1939SESwedish politician (1939–2022)
- Jan Staafb. 1962SEathletics competitor
- Linda Staafb. 1976SESwedish author and national Europol head and police chief
- Pegzb. 1977AUnot in their usual nameAustralian hip hop artist and producer
- Liquid Strangerb. 1978SEnot in their usual nameSwedish musician
- Markus Staafb. 1978FIFinnish film director
- Carmen Staafb. 1981USAmerican musician and pianist
- Jonas Staafb. 1981SESwedish association football player
- Robin Staafb. 1986SESwedish footballer
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)
Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.3K | #799 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 173 | #97,384 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 154 | #119,015 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 154 | #113,791 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 97 | #13,072 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 44 | #28,013 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 44 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 10 | #143,714 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Staaf mean, and where does it come from?
- a bar, rod (solid metal object) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Staaf?
- A machine transcription gives /stəæf/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Staaf have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Staaf, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled staaf.
- Where is Staaf most common?
- Staaf is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Staaf?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 1,275 people named Staaf, about 1 in 8.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Staaf compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Staaf is the 753rd most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Staaf?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/staafThe 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, “Staaf” — the 753rd most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.