Granby
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from Granby, Nottinghamshire; first attested Robert de Graneby 1356 FFEss
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Granby is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Canada.
- CACanada
- USUnited States
- COColombia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Canada (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 156 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Granby, Nottinghamshire; first attested Robert de Graneby 1356 FFEss.
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Granby counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA Canada | — | — | Granby | 28 |
| US United States | — | 363 | Granby | 156 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Granby | 61 |
| CO Colombia | — | — | Granby | 2 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | Granby | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 94 | — | 6 |
| FI Finland | — | 35 | — | 1 |
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 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Granby 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 English, habitational name from a place in Nottinghamshire named Granby, from the Old Norse personal name Grani + by ‘farmstead’.
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)
- Joseph Granbyb. 1885USactor (1885–1965)
- John Granbyb. 1968USfootball player (born 1968)
- Jane Granbyb. 1975USAmerican artist
- Charlie Granbydirector and filmmaker
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 363 | #60,024 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 342 | #59,171 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 341 | #56,120 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 94 | #16,204 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35 | #30,607 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Granby mean, and where does it come from?
- from Granby, Nottinghamshire; first attested Robert de Graneby 1356 FFEss. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Granby have the most bearers?
- Granby is most frequently recorded in Canada, where it is most often spelled granby.
What do you want to know about Granby?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/granbyThe 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, “Granby”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.