as a Last Name
- 13,718
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Gruber
Meaning & Origins
German (Grüber) and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone who lived in a depression or hollow, from (respectively) Middle High German gruobe, German Grube ‘pit’, ‘hollow’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant. As a Jewish name it can also be one of names randomly distributed by government officials.
| 2,285th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 13,718
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Wisconsin
- has the most people named Gruber per capita
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