Gribben
surname · Latin script
Meaning: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac (Mag) Roibm, a patronymic from the Norman personal name Robin, a pet form of Robert
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡɹɪbən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gribben is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 351K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 1.2M
- SESweden1 in 2.6M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
949 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac (Mag) Roibm, a patronymic from the Norman personal name Robin, a pet form of Robert.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gribben 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 | 949 | 1 in 351K | 949 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 13 | 1 in 3.8M | 13 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 7 | 1 in 5.5M | 5 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 4 | 1 in 2.6M | 4 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
949 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Gribben 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.
In Irish, This name is now widespread in the north-eastern counties of Ulster and has long been on record in Cos. Down and Armagh as O'Gribben ( Ó Gribín in Irish). Where it is found as MacGribben it is a variant of MacCribbin, i.e. Mac Roibín, a Connacht name ( Mag Roibín in Ulster). Its synonym MacRobin is now very rare. MIF
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of gribb
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)
- Edward Gribbenb. 1887GBBritish flying ace
- Darren Gribbenb. 1986GBScottish footballer (born 1986)
- Alan GribbenUSAmerican academic (1941–2026)
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 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 949 | #25,902 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 918 | #25,329 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 899 | #28,258 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 13 | #105,312 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #197,648 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #62,112 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #61,101 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #334,117 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Gribben mean, and where does it come from?
- reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac (Mag) Roibm, a patronymic from the Norman personal name Robin, a pet form of Robert. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gribben?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɹɪbən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gribben have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 949 people named Gribben, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gribben most common?
- Gribben is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 351 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gribben?
- In the United States, the national register counted 949 people named Gribben in 2010, about 1 in 351 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gribbenThe 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, “Gribben”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.