Griesel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a diminutive of Middle High German griez ‘coarsely ground grain’; perhaps an occupational nickname for a miller, farmer, or farm worker, or alternatively a topographic name for someone who lived
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɡɹisəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Griesel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M
- BEBelgium1 in 1.5M
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)
- Record sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
313 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a diminutive of Middle High German griez ‘coarsely ground grain’; perhaps an occupational nickname for a miller, farmer, or farm worker, or alternatively a topographic name for someone who lived on sandy soil, from the same word in this sense.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Griesel 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 | 313 | 1 in 1.1M | 320 | Griesel | 16 |
| BE Belgium | 8 | 1 in 1.5M | 8 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 7 | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 6 | 1 in 6.4M | 4 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 5 | 1 in 3.5M | 5 | — | — |
313 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Heinz Grieselb. 1931DEGerman mathematician and university teacher
- Bruno Grieselb. 1960DEGerman painter
- Werner Grieselb. 1986ZASouth African rugby union footballer
- Jeanelle Grieselb. 1997ZASouth African athletics competitor
- Charné Grieselb. 2000ZASouth African judoka
- Sam Grieselb. 2000USAmerican-German basketball player
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 320 | #59,147 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 313 | #63,698 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 307 | #69,002 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 8 | #81,695 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 5 | #77,921 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #221,258 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #332,847 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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)
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 Griesel mean, and where does it come from?
- from a diminutive of Middle High German griez ‘coarsely ground grain’; perhaps an occupational nickname for a miller, farmer, or farm worker, or alternatively a topographic name for someone who lived… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Griesel?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɹisəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Griesel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 313 people named Griesel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled griesel.
- Where is Griesel most common?
- Griesel is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Griesel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 313 people named Griesel in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million 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/grieselThe 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, “Griesel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.