Granna

surname · Latin script

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

Granna is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Evidently a form of Grania; borne by a daughter of Sir Edward O’Brien who died in 1837.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 9.6M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

138 people

Sources
21 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Evidently a form of Grania; borne by a daughter of Sir Edward O’Brien who died in 1837.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Granna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Granna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1381 in 1.5M138——
PL Poland41 in 9.6M4—1
US United States———Granna21
DE Germany———Granna18
GB United Kingdom———Granna2

138 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gřâńńâ

17 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Granna is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In non, neighbour (female)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 1

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Granna mean, and where does it come from?
Evidently a form of Grania; borne by a daughter of Sir Edward O’Brien who died in 1837. Recorded by Irish first names.
In which country does Granna have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 138 people named Granna, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Granna most common?
Granna is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Granna?
In Brazil, the national register counted 138 people named Granna, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Granna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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