Granberg

surname · Latin script

Meaning: habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, from gran ‘spruce’ -f- berg ‘hill’

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈɡɹænbɝɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Granberg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • 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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

3,749 people

Sources
29 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, from gran ‘spruce’ -f- berg ‘hill’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(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.

Where Granberg is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden3,7491 in 2.7K3.7KGranberg29
NO Norway1,2781 in 4.3K1.3KGranberg5
FI Finland1,2651 in 4.4K1.3KGranberg19
US United States8791 in 378K879Granberg11
DK Denmark1121 in 52K112——

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Granberg is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Finland, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Гранберг

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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)

16001700180019002000Jonas Granberg, b. 1696Emanuel Granberg, b. 1754Louise Granberg, b. 1812Jeanette Granberg, b. 1825Johan Olof Granberg, b. 1858Gunnar Granberg, b. 1906Ulf Granberg, b. 1945Lars U. Granberg, b. 1965Fredde Granberg, b. 1970Petter Granberg, b. 1992

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)

FormalDear Granberg,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Granberg
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—3.7K#264
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.3K#822
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1.3K#1,535
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010879#27,435
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000870#26,394
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020839#29,905
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025639—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2024636—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2023636—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2022632—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2021629—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2020624—

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)
  • 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

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?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɹænbɝɡ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Granberg have the most bearers?
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.
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.

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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”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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