Grech
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Grech, a vernacular pet form (in Silesia and elsewhere) of the Latin personal name Gregorius (see Gregory)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡɹɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Grech is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Australia than in any other country. In Malta it is the 5th most common surname.
- MTMalta≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 10K
- FRFrance≈1 in 79K
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.
- Australia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 233 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malta, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Grech, a vernacular pet form (in Silesia and elsewhere) of the Latin personal name Gregorius (see Gregory).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Grech 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AU Australia | #989 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 1 | Grech | 165 |
| US United States | — | 1,235 | 1 in 269K | 1.2K | Grech | 233 |
| FR France | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 79K | 110 | Grech | 154 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Grech | 139 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Grech | 17 |
| MT Malta | #5 | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 19 | Grech | 96 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Grech | 6 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the mt-um-surnames-historical register. 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)
Grech 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.
unexplained.
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)
- Prosper Grechb. 1925MTMaltese Cardinal (1925-2019)
- Lino Grechb. 1930MTMaltese actor, writer and director
- Joe Grechb. 1934MTMaltese singer and songwriter (1934–2024)
- Louis Grechb. 1947MTMaltese politician
- Joseph Angelo Grechb. 1948MTMaltese-Australian bishop (1948-2010)
- Mario Grechb. 1957MTMaltese catholic Cardinal (1957-)
- Leandro Grechb. 1980ARArgentine footballer
- Dan Grech-Margueratb. 1981GBEnglish record producer and sound engineer
- Martin Grechb. 1982GBBritish singer-songwriter
- Jake Grechb. 1997MTMaltese association football 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)
Attested in 32 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,415 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,237 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,871 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 124 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 121 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 116 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 110 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 47 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 26 | — |
| MT Malta | University of Malta — Maltese surnames, the 1419/20 Militia Roll | — | 19 | #15 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Grech mean, and where does it come from?
- from Grech, a vernacular pet form (in Silesia and elsewhere) of the Latin personal name Gregorius (see Gregory). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Grech?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɹɛk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Grech have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Grech in Australia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grech.
- How common is the name Grech?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,235 people named Grech in 2010, about 1 in 269 thousand residents.
- How common is Grech compared with other names?
- In Australia, Grech is the 989th most common surname of 552,428 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/grechThe 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, “Grech” — the 989th most common surname in Australia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.