Grîm
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Grîm is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English grim, from Old English grimm, from Proto-West Germanic *grimm, from Proto-Germanic *grimmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to resound, thunder, grumble, roar”).
- GLGreenland1 in 582(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 29K
- NLNetherlands1 in 41K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 582 (inferred from the name graph)
7,418 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Greenland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Grim in 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)- Middle Englishgrim(measured from records)
- Old Englishgrimm(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*grimm(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*grimmaz(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*gʰrem-“to resound“to resound, thunder, grumble, roar”(measured from records)
From Middle English grim, from Old English grimm, from Proto-West Germanic *grimm, from Proto-Germanic *grimmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to resound, thunder, grumble, roar”).
Cited for this meaning 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Nordic Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Grîm 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 | 7,418 | 1 in 45K | 7.4K | Grim | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 419 | 1 in 41K | 419 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 366 | 1 in 29K | 366 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 198 | 1 in 1.1M | 198 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 196 | 1 in 195K | 100 | — | — |
| GL Greenland | 99 | 1 in 582 | 99 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 34 | 1 in 173K | 34 | — | — |
7,418 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Grîm mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English grim, from Old English grimm, from Proto-West Germanic *grimm, from Proto-Germanic *grimmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to resound, thunder, grumble, roar”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
- Is Grîm a male or female name?
- Grîm is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Grîm have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.4 thousand people named Grîm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grim.
- Where is Grîm most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Grîm is densest in Greenland — about 1 in 582 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Grîm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,418 people named Grîm in 2010, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gr%C3%AEmThe 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, “Grîm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.