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Grobler Ranking

In South Africa, the name Grobler is the 192nd most popular surname with an estimated 34,309 people with that name. 1


United States Grobler migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Grobler Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
  • Carl Friederich Grobler, who settled in Philadelphia in 1752
  • Carl Fred Grobler, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1752 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Grobler (post 1700) +

  • Du Preez Grobler (b. 1977), Namibian rugby union centre
  • Bradley Grobler (b. 1988), South African footballer
  • Pieter Grobler (b. 1977), award-winning South African classical pianist
  • Jürgen Gröbler (b. 1946), German rowing coach, formerly the Olympic team coach of East Germany and later of Great Britain
  • Hanna Grobler (b. 1981), Finnish high jumper who has won nine gold medals in Finnish National Championships


  1. "Most Common Last Names in South Africa." Forebears, https://forebears.io/south-africa/surnames
  2. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)


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