Greisen
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Greisen is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. In English, recorded as A highly altered granitic rock containing quartz and mica.
- USUnited States
- DKDenmark
- HUHungary
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
patronymic from the personal name Greis, a reduced form of Gregers, Danish form of Gregory.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
How Greisen is read(measured from records)
Greisen is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English73%
A highly altered granitic rock containing quartz and mica.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Danish9.7%
patronymic from the personal name Greis, a reduced form of Gregers, Danish form of Gregory.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- German6.9%
inflection of greis:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kenneth Greisenb. 1918USAmerican physicist, astrophysicist and astronomer
- Eric Greisenb. 1944USAmerican astronomer
- Fernand Greisenb. 1944LULuxembourgish politician
- Gorm Greisenb. 1951DKDanish medical researcher
- Nelly Greisenb. 1955USAmerican musician
- Kim Greisenb. 1972DKDanish cyclist, born 1972
- Chris Greisenb. 1976USAmerican football player
- Lilli Greisenb. 1980Danish association football player
- Merete Greisenb. 1982Danish association football player
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(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2 | #30,374 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1978 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Greisen come from?
- patronymic from the personal name Greis, a reduced form of Gregers, Danish form of Gregory. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Greisen mean?
- In English, A highly altered granitic rock containing quartz and mica.
- In which country does Greisen have the most bearers?
- Greisen is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Greisen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.