Griebel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from a dwelling/landscape feature; bearer count 1664
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈɡɹibəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Griebel is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Toponymic surname from a dwelling/landscape feature; bearer count 1664. Variant cluster: < SiedlungsN X / < ON X not visible here; also possible competition with mhd. griebe, mnd. greve/grive, and mnd. griewel 'Dachs'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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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)Griebel is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Toponymic surname in this atlas context; related on the page to Grube/Gruber forms.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
topographic name for someone living in a hollow, from a diminutive of Middle High German gruobe ‘hollow’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Westphalian nickname for a clever person, from Middle Low German grievel ‘badger’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
variant of Griibel (see Grable).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Maltese, plural of gurbell and gorbell
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)- George Henry Griebelb. 1846DEAmerican architect (1846–1933)
- Tekla Griebel-Wandallb. 1866DKDanish composer (1866-1940)
- Karl Griebelb. 1872DEGerman architect (1872–1922)
- Constant Griebelb. 1876DEGerman non-fiction writer (1876–1965)
- Otto Griebelb. 1895DEGerman painter (1895-1972)
- Fritz Griebelb. 1899DEGerman painter (1899-1976)
- Rolf Griebelb. 1949DEGerman librarian
- Christina Griebelb. 1973DEGerman writer
- Julia Griebelb. 1989DEGerman Germanist
- Sophia Griebelb. 1990DEGerman skeleton racer
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,654 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,162 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,727 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 184 | #39,321 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 29 | #16,930 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 16 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15 | #97,717 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 12 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Griebel come from?
- Toponymic surname from a dwelling/landscape feature; bearer count 1664. Variant cluster: < SiedlungsN X / < ON X not visible here; also possible competition with mhd. griebe, mnd. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Griebel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɹibəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Griebel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname from a dwelling/landscape feature; bearer count 1664.
- In which country does Griebel have the most bearers?
- Griebel is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/griebelThe 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, “Griebel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.