Graef

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Graef is a surname, most frequently recorded in India. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: status name for the chairman of a town council.

rarermore common
  • 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 ●

across 7 countries

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
347 ●

769K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 74K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

GauravLatin · Hindi●1.1M records
গৌরবBengali · Bangla●898 records
กราฟThai · Thai●78 records
ᲒაურავGeorgian · Georgian●13 records
ଗୌରବOdia · Odia●0 records
גראףHebrew · Yiddish●0 records
ГрафCyrillic · Tajik●0 records

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, Graaf in NL Netherlands, FR France, BE Belgium and 1 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●

status name for the chairman of a town council. Compare Graf.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Graef is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#2381,329,509483K rec.—3.8KGaurav287
DE Germany—77,15069K rec.—listedGraf209
CH Switzerland—32,6583.2K rec.—13KGraf113
GB United Kingdom—11,7199.4K rec.—listedGraf112
AU Australia—8,9548.5K rec.—1Gaurav132
CA Canada—5,5925.1K rec.—1Graf121
AT Austria—4,7872.7K rec.—3Graf114
US United States—4,511158K rec.1 in 74K14KGraf347
FR France—1,301857 rec.—290Graaf106
BE Belgium—1,239783 rec.—137Graaf37
ID Indonesia—928947 rec.——Gaurav40
RU Russia—8591K rec.——Gaurav35

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English13K44%
  • German6.3K22%
  • Spanish2.8K10%
  • Dutch2.7K9%
  • French1.3K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English12,72844%
German6,33622%
Spanish2,84510%
Dutch2,6719%
French1,2514%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Graef is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname1.3K records spelled Graef3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Netherlands

    Also written Graëf

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

02040601900192019401960198042 · 1961

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Graef in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
18916
190116
191122
192111
193117
194131
195126
196142
197129
198121
199122

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Gustav Graef, b. 1821Paul Graef, b. 1855Botho Graef, b. 1857Reinhold Victor Walther Graef, b. 1873Walther Graef, b. 1875Edith Graef McGeer, b. 1923Roger Graef, b. 1936Jed Graef, b. 1942Gustavo Graef Marino, b. 1955Peter De Graef, b. 1958

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 19 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Graef
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.4K#18,484
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.4K#19,694
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.3K#20,512
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—557#15,440
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—372—
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200772#24,317
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196142—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194131—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197129—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195126—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202425#31,192
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—22#40,927

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 29 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Graef?
We estimate roughly 5.0 thousand people bear Graef (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Graef have the most bearers?
Graef is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled gaurav.
How common is Graef compared with other names?
In India, Graef is the 238th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
What does the name Graef mean?
Recorded meaning: status name for the chairman of a town council.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Graef” — the 238th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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