Graber Surname
Approximately 23,689 people bear this surname
Graber Surname Definition:
(German) One who dug in the ground, a digger.
Read More About This SurnameGraber Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 13,596 | 1:26,659 | 3,343 |
| Switzerland | 4,607 | 1:1,783 | 164 |
| Israel | 1,617 | 1:5,292 | 788 |
| Germany | 1,525 | 1:52,790 | 6,864 |
| Austria | 679 | 1:12,541 | 1,783 |
| France | 358 | 1:185,538 | 28,864 |
| Canada | 241 | 1:152,886 | 15,553 |
| Italy | 181 | 1:337,882 | 40,640 |
| Australia | 120 | 1:224,964 | 21,387 |
| Brazil | 112 | 1:1,911,378 | 61,207 |
| Russia | 99 | 1:1,455,788 | 100,531 |
| England | 84 | 1:663,310 | 38,317 |
| Ecuador | 71 | 1:224,026 | 8,184 |
| Croatia | 53 | 1:79,785 | 13,729 |
| Netherlands | 50 | 1:337,744 | 38,500 |
| Chile | 47 | 1:374,819 | 10,292 |
| Slovenia | 39 | 1:63,787 | 9,424 |
| South Africa | 34 | 1:1,593,462 | 80,086 |
| Thailand | 34 | 1:2,077,598 | 243,257 |
| Argentina | 24 | 1:1,780,976 | 92,783 |
| Poland | 20 | 1:1,900,437 | 96,203 |
| Mexico | 16 | 1:7,757,888 | 35,569 |
| Spain | 12 | 1:3,896,003 | 72,236 |
| Transnistria | 9 | 1:52,744 | 7,681 |
| Liechtenstein | 6 | 1:6,396 | 809 |
| Northern Ireland | 5 | 1:369,007 | 15,220 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1:1,376,926 | 28,409 |
| Finland | 4 | 1:1,374,176 | 50,379 |
| Belgium | 4 | 1:2,874,161 | 111,046 |
| China | 3 | 1:455,773,855 | 21,925 |
| Belarus | 3 | 1:3,167,020 | 121,664 |
| Moldova | 3 | 1:1,187,123 | 48,973 |
| Norway | 3 | 1:1,714,095 | 79,528 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Albania | 1 | 1:2,914,055 | 29,474 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 1:5,972,654 | 99,197 |
| Kosovo | 1 | 1:1,861,869 | 14,990 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 6 | 1:4,062,562 | 101,150 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1,051 | 1:47,782 | 5,469 |
The alternate forms: Gräber (5,244), Gráber (29) & Grãber (1) are calculated separately.
Graber (54) may also be a first name.
Graber Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
(German) One who dug in the ground, a digger.
(from an ancestor's occupation) Graber today means “gravedigger” in German, but an older meaning is “engraver of seals.” This was a well- established Jewish trade in the eighteenth century. Other German trade names of this category are: Steinschneider, Stempel, and Stempelmacher.
User-submitted Reference
A digger of graves or ditches, or an engraver of seals.
- itstrickyGraber Demographics
Average Graber Salary in
United States
$46,668 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Graber Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Graber Come From? nationality or country of origin
Graber (Russian: Грабер) occurs most in The United States. It may also be found in the variant forms: Gräber, Gráber or Grãber. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Graber? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 22,903rd most commonly used last name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 307,634 people. It occurs mostly in The Americas, where 60 percent of Graber reside; 58 percent reside in North America and 58 percent reside in Anglo-North America. Graber is also the 1,350,955th most common first name at a global level, borne by 54 people.
Graber is most commonly held in The United States, where it is carried by 13,596 people, or 1 in 26,659. In The United States it is mostly found in: Indiana, where 17 percent live, Nevada, where 7 percent live and Ohio, where 7 percent live. Excluding The United States it occurs in 57 countries. It is also common in Switzerland, where 19 percent live and Israel, where 7 percent live.
Graber Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Graber has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Graber surname rose 1,294 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it rose 1,400 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Graber Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Graber surname are 19.21% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 65.98% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Graber earn in different countries varies significantly. In Norway they earn 26.71% less than the national average, earning 253,640 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 15.85% less than the national average, earning R 199,968 per year; in United States they earn 8.16% more than the national average, earning $46,668 USD per year and in Canada they earn 7.62% more than the national average, earning $53,467 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Graber Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Graber in the Russian language | ||
| Грабер | graber | - |
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Graber Reference & Research
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Footnotes
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