Griego
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ethnic name from griego ‘Greek’ (Latin graecus)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Griego is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Heard & McDonald Islands it is the 35th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 39K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 63K
- UYUruguay1 in 12K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 336 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
8,456 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
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)
ethnic name from griego ‘Greek’ (Latin graecus).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Griego 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 | — | 8,456 | 1 in 39K | 8.5K | Griego | 336 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 447K | — | Griego | 2 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Griego | 35 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Griego | 1 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Griego | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 282 | 1 in 12K | 282 | — | — |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #35 | — | — | — | Griego | 1 |
8,456 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 Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Griego 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 Spanish, Greek (from or native to Greece)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, neuter of griegu
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)
- Phil Griegob. 1948USAmerican politician
- Danny GriegoUSAmerican musician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.5K | #4,192 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.1K | #4,228 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.9K | #4,164 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 282 | — |
| 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
- 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 Griego mean, and where does it come from?
- ethnic name from griego ‘Greek’ (Latin graecus). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Griego have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.5 thousand people named Griego, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled griego.
- Where is Griego most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Griego is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Griego?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,456 people named Griego in 2010, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
- How common is Griego compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Griego is the 35th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/griegoThe 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, “Griego” — the 35th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.