Grana
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: plural of granum
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Grana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uruguay than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 43K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 73K
- UYUruguay1 in 851
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.
- Uruguay (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- 1 in 851 (inferred from the name graph)
3,980 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
habitational name from any of the numerous places in Galicia named Grana.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Grana is read(measured from records)
Grana is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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%
plural of granum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish32%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Grana in Spanish.
- Portuguese11%
money; cash; dough
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Catalan7.5%
seed
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Grana 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.
3,980 people counted by INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Grana is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
habitational name from any of the numerous places in Galicia named Grana.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Italian, do lat. granum, “grão”; relacionado também à cochonilha e ao corante grana
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
habitational name from Grana in Asti province.
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)
- Francisco García Granab. 1913ESSpanish politician
- Gianni Granab. 1924ITItalian writer (1924-2001)
- Wladimiro Granab. 1941ITItalian actor
- André Pena Grañab. 1955ESSpanish historian
- Mario Granab. 1973ARArgentinian association football player
- Ariel Damian Granab. 1976ARArgentine footballer
- Fernando Granab. 1979BRBrazilian association football player
- Hernán Granab. 1985ARArgentine footballer
- Costantino GranaITresearcher
- Dario GranaUSresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-4220-053X
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.4K | #4,183 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 307 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 289 | #12,419 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 289 | #12,384 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 118 | #13,194 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Grana come from?
- habitational name from any of the numerous places in Galicia named Grana. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Grana mean?
- In English, plural of granum
- What are other forms of the name Grana?
- In the etymology graph, Grano is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Grana have the most bearers?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Grana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grana.
- Where is Grana most common?
- Grana is densest in Uruguay, where the national register counts about 1 in 851 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Grana?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 3,980 people named Grana, about 1 in 851 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/granaThe 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, “Grana”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.