Grier
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name Grier, a common medieval Scottish vernacular form of Gregory
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡɹaɪɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Grier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Lesotho it is the 15th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 5.8Kas Greer(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 6.8Kas Greer
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 7.5Kas Greer
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Grier itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 477 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 named Greer, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Gabon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Greer in US United States, CN China.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the personal name Grier, a common medieval Scottish vernacular form of Gregory.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Grier, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Grier 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Greer | 15 |
| US United States | — | 57,043as Greer | 1 in 5.8K | 57K | Greer | 477 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Grier | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | 3 | Grier | 192 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | 1 | Grier | 176 |
| LS Lesotho | #15 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Grier | 3 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Grier | 56 |
| GA Gabon | #559 | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Grier | 3 |
| NC New Caledonia | #408 | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Grier | 4 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Grier is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Reduced form of Gregory.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In Catalan, gizzard
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Robert Cooper Grierb. 1794USAmerican judge (1794–1870)
- Rosey Grierb. 1932USAmerican football player, actor and writer
- Barbara Grierb. 1933USwriter
- Pam Grierb. 1949USAmerican actress (born 1949)
- Francis Grierb. 1955GBEnglish composer and psychoanalyst
- David Alan Grierb. 1956USAmerican actor and comedian
- David Grierb. 1961USAmerican acoustic guitarist
- Mike Grierb. 1975USAmerican ice hockey player
- Will Grierb. 1995USAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Hayes Grierb. 2000USAmerican Internet personality
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 14K | #2,600 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 13K | #2,619 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 13K | #2,529 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Grier mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Grier, a common medieval Scottish vernacular form of Gregory. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Grier?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɹaɪɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Grier have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 136 thousand people named Greer in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Grier?
- In the United States, the national register counted 57,043 people named Greer in 2010, about 1 in 5.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Grier compared with other names?
- In Lesotho, Grier is the 15th most common surname of 5,753 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Grier?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/grierThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Grier” — the 15th most common surname in Lesotho. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.