Grieger
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name Grieger, one of the German forms of Latin Gregorius (see Gregory)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡɹiɡɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Grieger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 186K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 247K
- DKDenmark1 in 267K
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)
- Sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 186K (inferred from the name graph)
582 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the personal name Grieger, one of the German forms of Latin Gregorius (see Gregory).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Grieger 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 | 582 | 1 in 572K | 884 | Grieger | 28 |
| BR Brazil | 306 | 1 in 692K | 306 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 206 | 1 in 186K | 104 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 34 | 1 in 247K | 34 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 22 | 1 in 267K | 22 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 22 | 1 in 464K | 22 | — | — |
582 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Günter Griegerb. 1931DEGerman physicist (1931-2012)
- Hans Griegerb. 1941DEGerman footballer (1941-1998)
- Harald Griegerb. 1945DEGerman politician
- Scott Griegerb. 1946USAmerican artist (born 1946)
- Manfred Griegerb. 1960DEGerman historian
- Suzanne Grieger-Langerb. 1972DEGerman opinion journalist and writer
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 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 884 | #26,056 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 824 | #30,365 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 582 | #38,103 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 306 | #25,954 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 104 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 104 | #28,991 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 102 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 102 | #29,021 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 34 | #24,910 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 22 | #23,480 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 22 | #21,949 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Grieger mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Grieger, one of the German forms of Latin Gregorius (see Gregory). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Grieger?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɹiɡɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Grieger have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 582 people named Grieger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grieger.
- Where is Grieger most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Grieger is densest in Poland — about 1 in 186 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Grieger?
- In the United States, the national register counted 582 people named Grieger in 2010, about 1 in 572 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/griegerThe 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, “Grieger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.