Grieves
surname · Latin script
Meaning: plural of grief
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɡɹiːvz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Grieves is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- USUnited States
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)plural of grief
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Grieves 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 English, ‘Son of Grieve’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In lld, feminine plural of grief
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)- Ken Grievesb. 1925AUAustralian cricketer and soccer player (1925-1992)
- Marc Grievesb. 1960SESwedish artist
- James Grievesb. 1974GBScottish former motorcycle racer
- Robin Grievesb. 1982economist
- Daniel Grievesb. 1992UScollege basketball player (2014–2016) Louisiana-Monroe; Southeastern Louisiana
- Jack Grievesb. 2004GBEnglish footballer (born 2004)
- Keith GrievesGBhistorian
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 869 | #26,419 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 849 | #28,176 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 845 | #29,734 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 42 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16 | #29,995 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 10 | #55,381 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Grieves mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of grief Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Grieves?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɹiːvz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Grieves have the most bearers?
- Grieves 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/grievesThe 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, “Grieves”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.