Granberg
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, from gran ‘spruce’ -f- berg ‘hill’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/ɡrɑːn̪bɛrj/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
Granberg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country: 3,749 people, counted by Skatteverket.
- SESweden1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 4.3K
- FIFinland1 in 4.4K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
3,749 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Granberg
- Swedish:/ɡrɑːn̪bɛrj/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Norwegian:/ɡrɑnbɛrɡ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, from gran ‘spruce’ -f- berg ‘hill’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Granberg is found
(measured from records)Granberg 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 | 3,749 | 1 in 2.7K | 3.7K | Granberg | 29 |
| NO Norway | 1,278 | 1 in 4.3K | 1.3K | Granberg | 5 |
| FI Finland | 1,265 | 1 in 4.4K | 1.3K | Granberg | 19 |
| US United States | 879 | 1 in 378K | 879 | Granberg | 11 |
| DK Denmark | 112 | 1 in 52K | 112 | — | — |
3,749 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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)Granberg 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 Swedish, ornamental name composed of the elements gran ‘spruce’ -I- berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’.
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)- Ulf Granbergb. 1945SESwedish creator
- Fredde Granbergb. 1970SESwedish actor and director
- Petter Granbergb. 1992SESwedish 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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Granberg mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, from gran ‘spruce’ -f- berg ‘hill’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Granberg?
- It depends on the language: in Swedish /ɡrɑːn̪bɛrj/; in Norwegian /ɡrɑnbɛrɡ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Granberg?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Granberg, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled granberg. After it come Norway, Finland, United States and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Granberg most common?
- Granberg is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Granberg?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 3,749 people named Granberg, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Granberg?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/granbergThe 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, “Granberg” — ranked 264th in Sweden (Skatteverket). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.