Gräbe Surname
Approximately 984 people bear this surname
Gräbe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 864 | 1:93,178 | 11,661 |
| South Africa | 113 | 1:479,449 | 39,619 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Grabe (4,430) & Grabé (1) are calculated separately.
Gräbe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gräbe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gräbe is found in Germany more than any other country/territory. It can also be found in the variant forms: Grabe or Grabé. For other potential spellings of Gräbe click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gräbe? popularity and diffusion
The last name Gräbe is the 366,307th most commonly used last name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 7,406,043 people. The last name Gräbe occurs mostly in Europe, where 88 percent of Gräbe reside; 88 percent reside in Western Europe and 88 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The last name Gräbe is most commonly used in Germany, where it is borne by 864 people, or 1 in 93,178. In Germany Gräbe is most numerous in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 36 percent live, Saxony-Anhalt, where 14 percent live and Berlin, where 11 percent live. Not including Germany it occurs in 6 countries. It is also common in South Africa, where 11 percent live and Belgium, where 0 percent live.
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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
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