Gričar

surname · Latin script

/ɡritʃar/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gričar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: topographic name for someone who lived by a low hill, from Slovenian gric ‘low hill’.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 5.2K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 192K
  • ARArgentina1 in 3.5M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Slovenia (measured from records)

408 people

Sources
15 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gricar in SI Slovenia, US United States.

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 low hill, from Slovenian gric ‘low hill’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gričar 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.

Where Gričar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SI Slovenia#6384081 in 5.2K408Gricar15
HR Croatia—221 in 192K24Gričar12
AR Argentina—131 in 3.5M13——
US United States———111Gricar3

408 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank), counting the spelling gričar. 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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gričar is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Gricar, Griçar

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Slovenia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Gricar

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Colombia

    Also written Gricar

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gricar

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000Miha Gričar, b. 1903Jože Gričar, b. 1941Marko Gričar, b. 1964Jožica Gričar, b. 1978Simona Gričar, b. 1994

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)

FormalPoštovani Gričar,Dear Gričar, (English)
InformalPoštovani Gričar,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Gričar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—408#849
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202124—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202122#21,937

Reference works 2

  • 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 Gričar mean, and where does it come from?
topographic name for someone who lived by a low hill, from Slovenian gric ‘low hill’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Gričar?
A machine transcription gives /ɡritʃar/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Gričar have the most bearers?
In Slovenia, the national register counted about 408 people named Gričar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gricar.
Where is Gričar most common?
Gričar is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.2 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Gričar?
In Slovenia, the national register counted 408 people named Gričar, about 1 in 5.2 thousand residents.
How common is Gričar compared with other names?
In Slovenia, Gričar is the 638th most common surname of 13,062 surnames recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gri%C4%8Dar

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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, “Gričar” — the 638th most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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