Grenville
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Different form of Granville
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɟɹɛmvʲɪɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Grenville is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 127K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 1.5M
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 156K
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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 145 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 127K (inferred from the name graph)
≈520 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Different form of Granville.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Grenville 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 127K | listed | Grenville | 93 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Grenville | 14 |
| US United States | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 151 | Grenville | 145 |
| AU Australia | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 279K | 1 | Grenville | 55 |
| CA Canada | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Grenville | 43 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Grenville | 21 |
| SE Sweden | 8 | 1 in 1.3M | 8 | — | 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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Grenville is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, pers. name; county, Ontario; town,
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Grenada
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, from Grainville-la-Teinturiere (Seine-Inférieure); first attested Gerard de Grenvill’ 1161 P (Bk)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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)
- Grenville M. Dodgeb. 1831USUnion Army general (1831–1916)
- Grenville Lindall Winthropb. 1864USAmerican lawyer and art collector
- Reginald Grenville Evesb. 1876GBBritish painter (1876-1941)
- Grenville Morrisb. 1877GBWelsh footballer (1877-1959)
- P.G. Wodehouseb. 1881GBnot in their usual nameEnglish author (1881–1975)
- Grenville Clarkb. 1882USAmerican lawyer (1882-1967)
- Grenville Turnerb. 1936GBBritish geochemist (1936–2024)
- Tony Heyb. 1946GBnot in their usual nameBritish physicist and computer scientist
- Grenville Daveyb. 1961GBBritish artist (1961–2022)
- Leander Ward, 6th Earl of Dudleyb. 1971GBnot in their usual namefilm producer
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 151 | #120,768 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 126 | #133,863 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 105 | #144,908 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Grenville mean, and where does it come from?
- Different form of Granville. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Grenville?
- A machine transcription gives /ɟɹɛmvʲɪɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Grenville a male or female name?
- Grenville is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Grenville have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 518 people named Grenville in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grenville.
- How common is the name Grenville?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 8 people named Grenville, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Grenville?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/grenvilleThe 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, “Grenville”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.