Granat
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Granat is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Old French granat, originally ‘pomegranate’, later ‘garnet’ and hence a metonymic occupational name for a jeweler or dealer in semiprecious stones.
- USUnited States1 in 465K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 11K
- FIFinland1 in 13K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 209 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
998 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Old French granat, originally ‘pomegranate’, later ‘garnet’ and hence a metonymic occupational name for a jeweler or dealer in semiprecious stones.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Granat 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.
998 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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)
Granat is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, from granat meaning ‘pomegranate’ in Polish and ‘garnet’ in Yiddish; a nickname in Poish and an ornamental name in Yiddish.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Swedish, from the past participle of granar ‘to provide with seeds’; an indirect occupational name for a prosperous farmer.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Polish, pomegranate (fruit of tree of genus Punica)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, from 'garnet'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Swedish, soldier’s name from granat ‘grenade’, ‘shell’.
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)
- Aleksandr Naumovich Granatb. 1861BYRussian editor (1861-1933)
- Ignatiy Naumovich Granatb. 1863BYRussian-Soviet publisher, economist and university teacher (1863-1941)
- Endre Granatb. 1937HUHungarian violinist
- Jan Granatb. 1947PLPolish diplomat
- Avraham Grantb. 1955ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli association football manager
- Emmanuel Granatb. 1976FRcyclist
- Vladimir Granatb. 1987RURussian footballer
- Adrian Granatb. 1991SESwedish boxer
- Erik Granatb. 1995SEassociation football player
- Katarzyna GranatPLPolish jurist
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 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 957 | #1,040 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 715 | #32,236 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 677 | #35,729 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 657 | #32,900 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 506 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 506 | #6,345 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 492 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 492 | #6,620 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 414 | #4,071 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 169 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 67 | #8,044 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Granat mean, and where does it come from?
- from Old French granat, originally ‘pomegranate’, later ‘garnet’ and hence a metonymic occupational name for a jeweler or dealer in semiprecious stones. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Granat have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 998 people named Granat, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Granat most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Granat is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Granat?
- In Poland, the national register counted 998 people named Granat in 2026, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/granatThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Granat”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.