Sträb Surname

2,530,696th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 58 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Sträb Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sträb Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany561:1,437,59788,094
Austria11:8,515,435118,036
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

The alternate forms: Strab (46) are calculated separately.

Sträb Last Name Facts

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

The surname Sträb is more frequently found in Germany than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms: Strab. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Sträb? popularity and diffusion

It is the 2,530,696th most frequent last name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 125,647,343 people. The last name Sträb occurs mostly in Europe, where 98 percent of Sträb live; 98 percent live in Western Europe and 98 percent live in Germanic Europe.

The surname is most common in Germany, where it is held by 56 people, or 1 in 1,437,597. In Germany it is most prevalent in: Baden-Württemberg, where 52 percent reside, Schleswig-Holstein, where 20 percent reside and Hesse, where 14 percent reside. Apart from Germany this surname occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Austria, where 2 percent reside and The United States, where 2 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Strab9346/
Streb803,534/
Strob80255/
Strib8020/
Stréb8019/
Stryb808/
Ströb806/
Sträf801/
Streib731,670/
Streeb73336/
Strieb7384/
Strijb7351/
Straeb7341/
Straib7313/
Strebs7312/
Shtrab737/
Struib732/
Strreb731/
Streab731/
Strajb731/
Stresb731/
Stroeb730/
Struyb730/
Shtrayb676/
Strävås673/
Shtreib672/
Straabø672/

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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
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • 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 Sträb
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