Gröner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Gröninger via shortening; ultimately from a Germanic given-name base
/ɡʁøːnɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gröner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 63K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 219K
- ILIsrael1 in 23Kas גרונר
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 Gröner 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Groner in US United States, CH Switzerland, CN China, גרונר in IL Israel, NO Norway and Groener in NL Netherlands.
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 Gröninger via shortening; ultimately from a Germanic given-name base
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gröner 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Groner | 1 |
| US United States | 1,518 | 1 in 219K | 1.5K | Groner | 214 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 63K | listed | Gröner | 58 |
| BR Brazil | 590 | 1 in 359K | 590 | — | 2 |
| IL Israel | 385as גרונר | 1 in 23K | 385 | גרונר | 19 |
| NO Norway | 364as Gruner | 1 in 15K | 364 | גרונר | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 267as Groener | 1 in 65K | 267 | Groener | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | 174as Gruner | 1 in 48K | 174 | Groner | 12 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Gröner is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, 6 Types/919 Tokens; meist Herkunfts- oder Wohnstättenname zu den genannten Toponymen. Die Karte zeigt die ö/oe-Variante.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Zu grünen ‚grün werden/vorwärts kommen‘; auch patronymisch zu Gronhari. Karte zeigt o/u- und ö/ü-Vokalvarianz.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Emil Grönerb. 1892DEGerman association football player and manager (1892-1944)
- Erich Grönerb. 1901DEGerman opinion journalist and non-fiction writer (1901-1965)
- Walter Grönerb. 1950DEGerman writer
- Lissy Grönerb. 1954DEGerman politician (1954-2019)
- Ulrich Grönerb. 1957DEGerman violinist
- Christoph Grönerb. 1968DEGerman real-estate entrepreneur
- Anke Grönerb. 1969DEGerman art historian, writer and blogger
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 41 | #21,670 |
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
- What does the name Gröner mean, and where does it come from?
- from Gröninger via shortening; ultimately from a Germanic given-name base Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Gröner?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡʁøːnɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Gröner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.0 thousand people named Gröner in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled groner.
- How common is the name Gröner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,518 people named Gröner in 2010, about 1 in 219 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gröner?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gr%C3%B6nerThe 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, “Gröner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.