Gricar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived by a low hill, from Slovenian gric ‘low hill’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2000
Gricar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country: 408 people, counted by stat.si Imena rojstva.
- SISlovenia1 in 5.2K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 192K
- USUnited States≈1 in 3.2Mfew records
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.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
408 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)topographic name for someone who lived by a low hill, from Slovenian gric ‘low hill’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gricar is found
(measured from records)Gricar 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | 408 | 1 in 5.2K | 408 | Gricar | 11 |
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | 111 | Gricar | 85 |
| DE Germany | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Gricar | 16 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Gricar | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 22 | 1 in 192K | 24 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Gricar | 4 |
| IE Ireland | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 927K | — | Gricar | 1 |
408 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank), counting the spelling gričar. 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 2000; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gricar mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived by a low hill, from Slovenian gric ‘low hill’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gricar?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 408 people named Gricar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gricar. After it come United States, Germany, South Africa and Croatia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gricar most common?
- Gricar is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gricar?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 408 people named Gricar, about 1 in 5.2 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gricarThe 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, “Gricar” — ranked 849th in Slovenia (stat.si Imena rojstva). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.