Gronewold
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived by a verdant forest, from Middle Low German grone ‘green’ + wald ‘woods’, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, for example Grbnwohld near Tr
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Gronewold is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 70K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 454K
- CACanada≈1 in 800Kfew records
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 Gronewold itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Barbados, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Groenewold in NL Netherlands, RW Rwanda.
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)topographic name for someone who lived by a verdant forest, from Middle Low German grone ‘green’ + wald ‘woods’, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, for example Grbnwohld near Trittau.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gronewold 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Gronewold | 65 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,100as Groenewold | 1 in 16K | 1.1K | Groenewold | 49 |
| RW Rwanda | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Groenewold | 1 |
| US United States | 732 | 1 in 454K | 753 | Gronewold | 150 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 257K | — | Gronewold | 4 |
| BB Barbados | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Gronewold | 2 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)Gronewold is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Seltene Herkunfts-/Wohnstättennamen aus Grünwald; zeigt -wald/-wold-Varianten im Nebenton; 5 Types/849 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Deutscher Familienname; Plate zeigt Haupttonvokalismus mit Monophthongvarianz a/o sowie ä/ö; 849 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, from grône wold, 'green wood/forest'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)- Ilka Gronewoldb. 1985DEPresenter
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 753 | #32,687 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 732 | #31,587 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 710 | #30,929 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Gronewold mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived by a verdant forest, from Middle Low German grone ‘green’ + wald ‘woods’, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, for example Grbnwohld near Tr… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Gronewold have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Gronewold in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gronewold.
- How common is the name Gronewold?
- In the United States, the national register counted 732 people named Gronewold in 2010, about 1 in 454 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gronewoldThe 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, “Gronewold”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.