Greter
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Obsolete spelling of greater
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡɹɛtɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Greter is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 18K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 228K
- NLNetherlands1 in 720K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
476 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Obsolete spelling of greater.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Greter 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 476 | 1 in 18K | 476 | Greter | 6 |
| BR Brazil | 256 | 1 in 827K | 256 | Greter | 43 |
| NO Norway | 24 | 1 in 228K | 24 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 24 | 1 in 720K | 24 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 9 | 1 in 1.1M | 9 | — | 1 |
476 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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)
Greter 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 Walloon, to scratch
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)
- Johann Philipp Greterb. 1565DEWürttembergian painter
- Johan Greterb. 1900NLDutch military equestrian and veteran (1900–1975)
- Melanie GreterCHresearcher
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 19 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 476 | #2,729 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 256 | #30,058 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 24 | #39,379 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 24 | #46,158 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 9 | #41,676 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Greter mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete spelling of greater. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Greter?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɹɛtɐ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Greter have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 476 people named Greter, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled greter.
- Where is Greter most common?
- Greter is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 18 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Greter?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 476 people named Greter in 2024, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Greter?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/greterThe 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, “Greter”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.