Grahn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ornamental spelling of gran ‘spmce’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡɹæn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Grahn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 292K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 2.4K
- FIFinland1 in 5.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 227 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
4,342 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
ornamental spelling of gran ‘spmce’. This may be an ornamental name, a topographic name, or possibly a habitational name from a place called Gran.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Grahn 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 | — | 4,342 | 1 in 2.4K | 4.3K | Grahn | 70 |
| US United States | — | 1,140 | 1 in 292K | 1.3K | Grahn | 227 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,005 | 1 in 5.5K | 1K | Grahn | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 327K | — | Grahn | 34 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 205K | — | Grahn | 43 |
| NO Norway | — | 150 | 1 in 36K | 150 | — | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | 46 | 1 in 128K | 46 | — | 2 |
| DM Dominica | #126 | — | — | — | Grahn | 1 |
4,342 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Grahn 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.
perhaps a habitational name from such places as Granow, Grana, and Gran.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
a North German variant of Griin (see Gruen).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Lucile Grahnb. 1819DKDanish ballet dancer (1819–1907)
- Karl-Erik Grahnb. 1914SESwedish footballer (1914-1963)
- Ove Grahnb. 1943SESwedish association football player (1943-2007)
- Dieter Grahnb. 1944DEEast German rower
- Wallis Grahnb. 1945SESwedish actress (1945-2018)
- Nancy Lee Grahnb. 1958USAmerican actress
- Sören Grahnb. 1962SESwedish male curler and coach
- Christian Grahnb. 1978SESwedish drummer
- Sanni Grahn-Laasonenb. 1983FIFinnish politician and a member of the National Coalition Party
- Sara Grahnb. 1988SESwedish ice hockey player
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 22 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4.3K | #221 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,719 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,806 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #22,543 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1K | #1,887 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 399 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 150 | #10,484 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 46 | #11,349 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- Where does the name Grahn come from?
- ornamental spelling of gran ‘spmce’. This may be an ornamental name, a topographic name, or possibly a habitational name from a place called Gran. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Grahn?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɹæn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Grahn mean?
- Recorded meaning: ornamental spelling of gran ‘spmce’.
- In which country does Grahn have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Grahn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grahn.
- Where is Grahn most common?
- Grahn is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Grahn?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 4,342 people named Grahn, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Grahn compared with other names?
- In Dominica, Grahn is the 126th most common surname of 841 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/grahnThe 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, “Grahn” — the 126th most common surname in Dominica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.