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The GRABE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 507 40622 0 2
United States (1880 census) 237 17012 0 5
Change since 1880 +270 -23610 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 14 69269 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GRABE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 79 14434 0.001 8
Iowa 46 9129 0.002 16
Florida 41 33735 0.000 3
Arizona 38 12735 0.001 7
California 38 49962 0.000 1
Top States for GRABE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 46 9129 0.002 16
Michigan 79 14434 0.001 8
Arizona 38 12735 0.001 7
North Dakota 4 17074 0.001 6
Oregon 16 22824 0.000 5

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called GRABE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GRABE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GRABE in Michigan than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GRABE by picking someone at random in Iowa than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GRABE

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Netherlands

Language of origin: Dutch

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GRABE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of GRABE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 482 95.07
White (Hispanic) 10 1.97
Mixed Race 5 0.99
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the GRABE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of GRABE in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GRABE.

Similar names to GRABE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRABE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GRABE

The following words are slight variants of GRABE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.