Gerngross
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
Gerngross is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 12M(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 222Kas Gerngroß
- ATAustria≈1 in 224Kas Gerngroß
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 Gerngross itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12M (inferred from the name graph)
≈360 named Gerngroß, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Gerngroß in DE Germany.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gerngross 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 | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 222K | — | Gerngroß | 32 |
| AT Austria | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 224K | — | Gerngross | 15 |
| PL Poland | 2as Gerngroß | 1 in 19M | 2 | Gerngross | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Gerngross | 20 |
| CH Switzerland | — | — | — | Gerngross | 4 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Emma Gerngrossb. 1862DEholocaust victim, b. 1862-02-10
- Sofie Gerngrossb. 1863CZHolocaust victim (born 1863)
- Robert Gerngrossb. 1876DEGerman Jewish Holocaust victim (1876- )
- Rupprecht Gerngroßb. 1915DEGerman lawyer (1915–1996)
- Marie Gerngrossováb. 1918ATnot in their usual nameAustrian Jewish Holocaust victim (1918-1943)
- Heidulf Gerngrossb. 1939ATAustrian architect
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #162,675 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- In which country does Gerngross have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 361 people named Gerngroß in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gerngross most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gerngross is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 12 million people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gerngross?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1 people named Gerngross in 2008, about 1 in 12 million residents.
What do you want to know about Gerngross?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gerngrossThe 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, “Gerngross”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.