Greci
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Several locations in Romania:
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Greci is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 62K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 561K
- BEBelgium1 in 781K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Several locations in Romania:
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Greci is read(measured from records)
Greci is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English39%
Several locations in Romania:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian22%
forma plural de Greco.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
masculine plural of greco
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Greci in Spanish.
- Hebrew7.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Greci in Hebrew.
- French7.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Greci in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Greci 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 62K | listed | Greci | 18 |
| US United States | 149 | 1 in 2.2M | 169 | Greci | 19 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 561K | — | Greci | 10 |
| BR Brazil | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 8.1M | 410 | Greci | 26 |
| AR Argentina | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Greci | 16 |
| BE Belgium | 15 | 1 in 781K | 15 | — | 1 |
| CL Chile | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | 1 | — | 5 |
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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the xinhua-italian-manual register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Greci 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 Romanian, indefinite plural of grec
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- José Grecib. 1941ITItalian film, television and stage actress (1941-2017)
- Roberto Grecib. 1947ITItalian medievalist (born 1947)
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 169 | #110,961 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 149 | #116,829 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 128 | #124,109 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 120 | #55,146 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 15 | #56,965 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Greci mean, and where does it come from?
- Several locations in Romania: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Greci have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Greci in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled greci.
- How common is the name Greci?
- In the United States, the national register counted 149 people named Greci in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Greci?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/greciThe 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, “Greci”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.