Grieze
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Dumbrvistiņu dzimtas suga ("Crex crex"), neliels, irbei līdzīgs rūsganbrūns griežveidīgo kārtas putns, kas dzīvo mitrās pļavās un vakaros un naktīs rada raksturīgas čirkstošas skaņas
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Grieze is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country.
- LTLithuania≈1 in 47K(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 2M
- SESweden1 in 3.4M
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.
- Lithuania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
≈59 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Lithuania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)Dumbrvistiņu dzimtas suga ("Crex crex"), neliels, irbei līdzīgs rūsganbrūns griežveidīgo kārtas putns, kas dzīvo mitrās pļavās un vakaros un naktīs rada raksturīgas čirkstošas skaņas
Cited for this meaning 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Grieze 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.
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Grieze 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 Latvian, apdzīvota vieta (vidējciems) Saldus novada Ezeres pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Pārmaiņa, pārvērtība (stāvoklī, attīstības gaitā)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Arkls ar asmenim līdzīgu lemesi, griezējarkls
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Kustība - priekšmeta griešanās ap savu asi
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, tāds, kas groza galvu šurp un turp
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3 | #62,614 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #78,089 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Grieze mean?
- Recorded meaning: Dumbrvistiņu dzimtas suga ("Crex crex"), neliels, irbei līdzīgs rūsganbrūns griežveidīgo kārtas putns, kas dzīvo mitrās pļavās un vakaros un naktīs rada raksturīgas čirkstošas skaņas
- In which country does Grieze have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 59 people named Grieze in Lithuania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grieze.
- How common is the name Grieze?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 3 people named Grieze, about 1 in 3.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Grieze?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/griezeThe 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, “Grieze”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.