Gräf Surname
Approximately 9,314 people bear this surname
Gräf Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 8,962 | 1:8,983 | 1,112 |
| Austria | 227 | 1:37,513 | 6,059 |
| Switzerland | 58 | 1:141,602 | 13,683 |
| Sweden | 33 | 1:298,387 | 20,789 |
| Czechia | 7 | 1:1,519,067 | 97,842 |
| Brazil | 6 | 1:35,679,055 | 486,536 |
| South Africa | 5 | 1:10,835,541 | 204,227 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Hungary | 2 | 1:4,908,138 | 64,617 |
| Romania | 2 | 1:10,038,935 | 80,612 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
Gräf Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gräf Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gräf is carried by more people in Germany than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Gräf.
How Common Is The Last Name Gräf? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 54,635th most widely held last name on earth, held by around 1 in 782,429 people. The surname Gräf is mostly found in Europe, where 100 percent of Gräf live; 99 percent live in Western Europe and 99 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The last name is most frequent in Germany, where it is carried by 8,962 people, or 1 in 8,983. In Germany Gräf is mostly found in: Bavaria, where 24 percent live, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 17 percent live and Rhineland-Palatinate, where 15 percent live. Apart from Germany this last name exists in 17 countries. It is also found in Austria, where 2 percent live and Switzerland, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gräfe | 89 | 7,447 | / |
| Gräff | 89 | 1,948 | / |
| Gräfs | 89 | 5 | / |
| Gräffe | 80 | 1 | / |
| Gref | 75 | 1,658 | / |
| Gräb | 75 | 641 | / |
| Grif | 75 | 524 | / |
| Gryf | 75 | 88 | / |
| Gröf | 75 | 71 | / |
| Gräv | 75 | 2 | / |
| Gräfová | 73 | 2 | / |
| Greif | 67 | 9,061 | / |
| Graef | 67 | 6,475 | / |
| Greff | 67 | 4,614 | / |
| Greef | 67 | 2,055 | / |
| Grefe | 67 | 1,933 | / |
| Grief | 67 | 1,499 | / |
| Griff | 67 | 1,344 | / |
| Grift | 67 | 771 | / |
| Grife | 67 | 419 | / |
| Graif | 67 | 235 | / |
| Greaf | 67 | 71 | / |
| Gryfe | 67 | 68 | / |
| Greyf | 67 | 48 | / |
| Greft | 67 | 38 | / |
| Grajf | 67 | 28 | / |
| Grayf | 67 | 23 | / |
| Gryff | 67 | 19 | / |
| Groef | 67 | 14 | / |
| Ngref | 67 | 9 | / |
| Gröff | 67 | 3 | / |
| Gretf | 67 | 2 | / |
| Ghrif | 67 | 1 | / |
| Gräffová | 67 | 1 | / |
| Grisf | 67 | 1 | / |
| Gresf | 67 | 1 | / |
| Gritf | 67 | 1 | / |
| Gruyf | 67 | 1 | / |
| Gryft | 67 | 0 | / |
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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 Gräf
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