Grbes Surname

5,213,395th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 14 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Austria
Highest density in:
Austria

Grbes Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Grbes Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Austria111:774,13064,097
Croatia21:2,114,30285,143
Germany11:80,505,459560,955

The alternate forms: Grbeš (138) are calculated separately.

Grbes Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Grbes Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Grbes is carried by more people in Austria than any other country/territory. It may occur in the variant forms: Grbeš. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Grbes? popularity and diffusion

It is the 5,213,395th most widespread surname world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 520,538,994 people. It occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of Grbes live; 86 percent live in Western Europe and 86 percent live in Germanic Europe.

The last name Grbes is most frequently used in Austria, where it is borne by 11 people, or 1 in 774,130. In Austria Grbes is most common in: Styria, where 82 percent reside and Upper Austria, where 18 percent reside. Excluding Austria it occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Croatia, where 14 percent reside and Germany, where 7 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Grbeš93138/
Grbec80571/
Grber8058/
Gőrbe8048/
Grues8015/
Græbe8013/
Grves802/
Grwes801/
Grbie801/
Grőber7386/
Groues7379/
Gruest7314/
Gruess7311/
Gruesz738/
Ghrves731/
Gruehs731/
Grwues730/
Grba671,169/
Geerbex6725/
Grbj671/
Grbi671/
Grve671/
Geerves671/
Grbeich671/
Grby670/

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Grbes
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