Graaf
surname · Dutch · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Graaf is a surname, most frequently recorded in India. It appears chiefly in Dutch and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A Dutch earl or count.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 703◐
- ATAustria1 in 1.3K
- DEGermany1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈5.0K ●
- 7 ●
- Sources
- 347 ●
- 1 in 74K ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
769K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
5 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gaurav in IN India, AU Australia, BR Brazil and 12 more, Graf in US United States, DE Germany, CH Switzerland and 7 more and Gourab in BD Bangladesh.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
A Dutch earl or count.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #238 | 1,329,509 | 483K rec. | — | 3.8K | Gaurav | 287 |
| DE Germany | — | 77,150 | 69K rec. | — | listed | Graf | 209 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 32,658 | 3.2K rec. | — | 13K | Graf | 113 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 11,719 | 9.4K rec. | — | listed | Graf | 112 |
| AU Australia | — | 8,954 | 8.5K rec. | — | 1 | Gaurav | 132 |
| CA Canada | — | 5,592 | 5.1K rec. | — | 1 | Graf | 121 |
| AT Austria | — | 4,787 | 2.7K rec. | — | 3 | Graf | 114 |
| US United States | — | 4,511 | 158K rec. | 1 in 74K | 14K | Graf | 347 |
| FR France | — | 1,301 | 857 rec. | — | 290 | Graaf | 106 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1,239 | 783 rec. | — | 137 | Graaf | 37 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 928 | 947 rec. | — | — | Gaurav | 40 |
| RU Russia | — | 859 | 1K rec. | — | — | Gaurav | 35 |
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Languages●
- Dutch18K54%
- English6.5K19%
- German2.7K8%
- French1.1K3%
- Spanish7862%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | 18,342 | 54% |
| English | 6,485 | 19% |
| German | 2,683 | 8% |
| French | 1,128 | 3% |
| Spanish | 786 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Graaf is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, earl, count
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Wohnstättenname zu Graf/Graaf; univerbierte Form. 12 Belege; zeigt niederländische Lautform.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name●
- Heinz Graafb. 1910DEGerman architect
- Anneke van der Graafb. 1920NLDutch singer (1920-2009)
- Jan de Graafb. 1948NLDutch sculptor (1948)
- Magdalena Graafb. 1975SESwedish model, singer and writer
- Laurens de Graafb. 1977NLDutch politician
- Klaas Andries de GraafNLresearcher
- Peter van der GraafGBresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 13 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Graaf?
- We estimate roughly 5.0 thousand people bear Graaf (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Graaf have the most bearers?
- Graaf is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled gaurav.
- How common is Graaf compared with other names?
- In India, Graaf is the 238th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Graaf mean?
- Recorded meaning: A Dutch earl or count.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Graaf” — the 238th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.