Gruba
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gruba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from gruby ‘big’, ‘coarse’, ‘thick’, hence a nickname referring either to an individual’s physical appearance or to his coarse behavior.
- LVLatvia≈1 in 6.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 14K
- FIFinland1 in 186K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
2,665 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 gruby ‘big’, ‘coarse’, ‘thick’, hence a nickname referring either to an individual’s physical appearance or to his coarse behavior.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gruba 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 2,665 | 1 in 14K | 1.4K | Gruba | 56 |
| US United States | 473 | 1 in 703K | 485 | Gruba | 24 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 759K | — | Gruba | 5 |
| LV Latvia | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Gruba | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 280 | 1 in 756K | 280 | — | 1 |
| RS Serbia | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 216K | — | Gruba | 8 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 18 | 1 in 304K | 18 | — | 2 |
2,665 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Gruba is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, pregnant woman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Russian, "rude."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In szl, mine (excavation in the earth for extracting coal or other minerals)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, dative singular of grup
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, harsh
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.4K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.4K | #2,101 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.3K | #2,323 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 485 | #47,189 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 473 | #45,253 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 453 | #44,654 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 280 | #28,013 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #35,333 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #44,131 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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 Gruba mean, and where does it come from?
- from gruby ‘big’, ‘coarse’, ‘thick’, hence a nickname referring either to an individual’s physical appearance or to his coarse behavior. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Gruba have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Gruba, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gruba.
- How common is the name Gruba?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,665 people named Gruba in 2026, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/grubaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Gruba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.