Gradin
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Any of a series of terraced steps or seats, as in an arena or an altar
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡɹˈædɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gradin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 323K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 8.9K
- UYUruguay1 in 51K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)
1,142 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Any of a series of terraced steps or seats, as in an arena or an altar.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Gradin is read(measured from records)
Gradin is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English42%
Any of a series of terraced steps or seats, as in an arena or an altar.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gradin in Spanish.
- Portuguese14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gradin in Portuguese.
- Swedish10%
unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gradin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 1,142 | 1 in 8.9K | 1.1K | Gradin | 15 |
| BR Brazil | 423 | 1 in 501K | 423 | Gradin | 54 |
| US United States | 214 | 1 in 1.6M | 227 | Gradin | 20 |
| ES Spain | 191 | 1 in 262K | 191 | Gradin | 26 |
| AR Argentina | 141 | 1 in 323K | 141 | Gradin | 32 |
| UY Uruguay | 66 | 1 in 51K | 66 | Gradin | 10 |
| NO Norway | 24 | 1 in 228K | 24 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 18 | 1 in 117K | 18 | — | — |
1,142 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Gradin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, tier (of hall etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Carlos J. Gradinb. 1918ARArgentine archaeologist
- Anita Gradinb. 1933SESwedish politician, Social Democrat politician and diplomat
- Alda C. Gradinb. 1942UYUruguayan writer
- Thomas Gradinb. 1956SEice hockey player
- Peter Gradinb. 1958SEOlympic ice hockey player
- Bert Gradinb. 1962SESwedish actor
- Maurizio Gradinb. 1967ITItalian comics artist
- Elin Gradinb. 1977SESwedish actress
- Carles Poch-Gradinb. 1982ESSpanish tennis player
- Fanny Gradinb. 1994SESwedish amateur wrestler
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 24 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Gradin mean, and where does it come from?
- Any of a series of terraced steps or seats, as in an arena or an altar. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gradin?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɹˈædɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gradin have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Gradin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gradin.
- Where is Gradin most common?
- Gradin is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gradin?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 1,142 people named Gradin, about 1 in 8.9 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gradinThe 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, “Gradin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.