Grifo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Cannabis
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡɹɪfoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Grifo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 104K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 123K
- ESSpain1 in 281K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 104K (inferred from the name graph)
≈510 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
tap, faucet (device used to dispense liquids)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
How Grifo is read(measured from records)
Grifo is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 4 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English41%
Cannabis.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish20%
tap, faucet (device used to dispense liquids)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese13%
griffin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Grifo in French.
- Italian5.1%
griffin (obsolete)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Grifo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 123K | listed | Grifo | 13 |
| BR Brazil | 415 | 1 in 510K | 415 | Grifo | 28 |
| ES Spain | 178 | 1 in 281K | 178 | Grifo | 41 |
| US United States | 153 | 1 in 2.2M | 156 | Grifo | 28 |
| PT Portugal | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Grifo | 23 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 501K | — | Grifo | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 28 | 1 in 419K | 28 | — | 1 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the xinhua-italian-manual register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Grifo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cbk, faucet; tap
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)
- Antonio Grifob. 1430ITItalian humanist
- Leonardo Grifob. 1437ITRoman Catholic archbishop
- Lionello Grifob. 1934Italian poet
- Vincenzo Grifob. 1993DEGerman/Italian association football 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)
Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 415 | #20,101 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 178 | #18,039 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 178 | #18,011 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 156 | #117,879 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 154 | #107,038 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 153 | #114,424 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 28 | #38,731 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Where does the name Grifo come from?
- tap, faucet (device used to dispense liquids) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Grifo mean?
- In English, Cannabis.
- How do you pronounce Grifo?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɹɪfoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Grifo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 507 people named Grifo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grifo.
- How common is the name Grifo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 415 people named Grifo, about 1 in 510 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Grifo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/grifoThe 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, “Grifo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.