Graü
surname · Latin script
Graü is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: * As a German surname, borrowed from German Grau, a nickname for someone with grey hair or beard.
- ESSpain1 in 3.4K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 8.3K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 11K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
14,901 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Grau in ES Spain, 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)- GermanGrau(measured from records)
- Occitanand(measured from records)
- Occitan rootgrau“degree“degree, level”(measured from records)
- Old Frenchgrau“kind of fork”(measured from records)
* As a German surname, borrowed from German Grau, a nickname for someone with grey hair or beard. * As a Catalan and southern French surname, from Occitan and Catalan Grau, a topographic surname from grau (“degree, level”). * Also as a Catalan surname, reduced from the personal name Guerau; see Gerald. * As a French surname, from Old French grau (“kind of fork”), from Frankish/Germanic, probably related to Old Norse grein (“fork, branch”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Graü 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 14,901 | 1 in 3.4K | 15K | Grau | 12 |
| US United States | 5,365 | 1 in 62K | 5.4K | Grau | 7 |
| AR Argentina | 1,599 | 1 in 28K | 1.6K | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 735 | 1 in 11K | 735 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 440 | 1 in 13K | 440 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 408 | 1 in 8.3K | 408 | — | — |
14,901 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 Graü mean, and where does it come from?
- * As a German surname, borrowed from German Grau, a nickname for someone with grey hair or beard. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Graü have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Graü, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grau.
- Where is Graü most common?
- Graü is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Graü?
- In Spain, the national register counted 14,901 people named Graü, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
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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, “Graü”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.