Greenspan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: anglicization of the invented Jewish surname Grinspan, from German Griinspan ‘verdigris’ (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈɡɹiːnspæn/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Greenspan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 2,737 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Greenspan is also written גרינשפן in Hebrew and Гриншпан in Cyrillic.
- CACanada≈1 in 100Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 122K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 190K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Greenspan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 330 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
2,737 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Greenspan in other scripts: Hebrew and Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled גרינשפן in IL Israel.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Greenspan
- English:/ˈɡɹiːnspæn/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)anglicization of the invented Jewish surname Grinspan, from German Griinspan ‘verdigris’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Greenspan is found
(measured from records)Greenspan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,737 | 1 in 122K | 2.7K | Greenspan | 330 |
| GH Ghana | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Greenspan | 5 |
| IL Israel | 537as גרינשפן | 1 in 16K | 537 | גרינשפן | 25 |
| CA Canada | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Greenspan | 85 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 189K | listed | Greenspan | 59 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Greenspan | 2 |
2,737 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"). 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)Greenspan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Green pigment of Spain to dye or produce medicine, the green of Spain = in German das Grün von Spanien.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Americanized form of the Ashkenazic Jewish ornamental surname Grunspan, from German Griinspan ‘verdigris’ (Middle High German gruenspdn, which is a caique of medieval Latin viride hispanicum ‘Spanish green’).
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)- Alan Greenspanb. 1926USAmerican economist and financial advisor (1926–2026)
- Bud Greenspanb. 1926USAmerican film director, writer, and producer (1926–2010)
- Jason Alexanderb. 1959USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor, comedian, director and television host
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Greenspan mean, and where does it come from?
- anglicization of the invented Jewish surname Grinspan, from German Griinspan ‘verdigris’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Greenspan?
- In English /ˈɡɹiːnspæn/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Greenspan?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Greenspan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled greenspan. After it come Ghana, Israel, Canada and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Greenspan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,737 people named Greenspan in 2010, about 1 in 122 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/greenspanThe 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, “Greenspan” — ranked 10941st in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.