Gru
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: grits (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
/ɡʁy/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Gru is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 760Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M
- ARArgentina1 in 3M
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 Gru 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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 763K (inferred from the name graph)
550 named Grue
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Gru in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Grue in US United States, NO Norway, GB United Kingdom and 3 more.
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.
How to pronounce Gru
- French:/ɡʁy/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/ɡɾu/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Initialism of gated recurrent unit.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gru is read
(measured from records)Gru is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- French39%
grits
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English19%
Initialism of gated recurrent unit.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gru in German.
- Spanish8.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gru in Spanish.
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 the surname Gru is found
(measured from records)Gru 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | — | 550as Grue | 1 in 9.9K | 550 | Grue | 10 |
| FR France | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 241K | 44 | Gru | 4 |
| US United States | — | 259as Grue | 1 in 1.3M | 259 | Grue | 140 |
| DK Denmark | — | 173as Grue | 1 in 34K | 173 | Grue | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 624K | — | Grue | 46 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 763K | — | Gru | 32 |
| AR Argentina | — | 15 | 1 in 3M | 15 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 405K | — | Grue | 8 |
| SC Seychelles | #747 | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Grue | 1 |
550 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)Gru is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, horror
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, initialism of Guia de Recolhimento de Receitas da União
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Kistane.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, dread, horror
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Gru come from?
- Initialism of gated recurrent unit. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Gru?
- In the etymology graph, Grout is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Gru?
- It depends on the language: in French /ɡʁy/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /ɡɾu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Gru mean?
- In French, grits
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gru?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 550 people named Grue, more than in any other country we hold. After it come France, United States, Denmark and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Gru?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 15 people named Gru, about 1 in 3.0 million residents.
- How common is Gru compared with other names?
- In the Seychelles, Gru is the 747th most common surname of 2,002 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gru?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gruThe 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, “Gru” — ranked 2407th in Norway (SSB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.