Grossman
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Grossman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: descriptive nickname for a large man (see Grossmann).
- CACanada≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 19K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 24K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 457 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
17,484 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
descriptive nickname for a large man (see Grossmann).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Grossman 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 17,484 | 1 in 19K | 18K | Grossman | 457 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Grossman | 129 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Grossman | 149 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 33K | listed | Grossman | 15 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Grossman | 7 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Grossman | 63 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Grossman | 14 |
| JM Jamaica | #463 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Grossman | 1 |
17,484 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Grossman 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 English, A surname from German of German and Jewish Ashkenazi origin.
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)
- Arthur Freedb. 1894USnot in their usual nameAmerican lyricist and Hollywood film producer (1894-1973)
- Vasily Grossmanb. 1905UARussian Soviet writer and journalist (1905-1964)
- Grayson Hallb. 1922USnot in their usual nameAmerican television, film and stage actress (1922-1985)
- Robin Thomasb. 1949USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1949-)
- Sanford J. Grossmanb. 1953USAmerican economist
- David Grossmanb. 1954ILIsraeli author (born 1954)
- Lev Grossmanb. 1969USAmerican novelist, journalist
- Leslie Grossmanb. 1971USAmerican actress
- Naomi Grossmanb. 1975USAmerican actress, writer, and producer
- Alex Emanuelb. 2000USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and film
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 28 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 18K | #1,854 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 17K | #2,067 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 16K | #2,172 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Grossman mean, and where does it come from?
- descriptive nickname for a large man (see Grossmann). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Grossman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Grossman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grossman.
- How common is the name Grossman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 17,484 people named Grossman in 2010, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Grossman compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Grossman is the 463rd most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Grossman” — the 463rd most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.