Grigori
given name · Latin script
Meaning: variante regional de Gregori
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡɹɪɡɔɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Grigori is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Ukraine it is the 64th most common given name.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 240as Григорій(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 639as Григорий
- USUnited States1 in 660as Gregory
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Grigori itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #419 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- 1 in 704 (inferred from the name graph)
503,949 named Gregory, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Григорий in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, Григорій in UA Ukraine, Gregory in US United States and Grigory in BR Brazil.
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)
variante regional de Gregori.
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How Grigori is read(measured from records)
Grigori is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- English22%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Grigori in English.
- Georgian19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Grigori in Georgian.
- Russian14%
de gregoreo, veiller.
as a nameRussian Names
- German10%
) Grigorij: in den i98oer-Jahren entlehnter männl. Vom., russische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- French6.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Grigori in French.
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)
Grigori 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 | — | 503,949as Gregory | 1 in 660 | 503K | Gregory | 187 |
| RU Russia | #84 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 639 | #36 | Григорий | 192 |
| UA Ukraine | #64 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 240 | — | Григорій | 60 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #166 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 2.9K | Григорий | 45 |
| BR Brazil | — | 5,618as Gregory | 1 in 38K | 5.6K | Grigory | 13 |
| MD Moldova | #195 | 4,781 | 1 in 704 | 4.8K | Grigori | 17 |
| GY Guyana | — | 673as Gregory | 1 in 1.1K | 673 | — | 1 |
503,949 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: the russian-names-pereverzeva-2011 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); e-services.md — living population register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Grigori is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, variante regional de Gregori.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Gregori
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
Russian form of GREGORY . Pet form: Grisha .
as a word
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)
- Gregory Potyomkinb. 1739RUnot in their usual nameRussian military leader and politician (1739–1791)
- Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyevb. 1883UAUkrainian revolutionary (1883-1936)
- Grigori Aleksandrovb. 1903RUSoviet film director (1903-1983)
- Grigori Chukhraib. 1921RUSoviet film director and screenwriter (1921-2001)
- Grigory Margulisb. 1946USRussian mathematician
- Grigory Yavlinskyb. 1952RURussian politician and economist
- Boris Akuninb. 1956RUnot in their usual nameRussian writer, translation, and historian
- Grigory Lepsb. 1962RURussian singer-songwriter of Georgian origin
- Grigori Perelmanb. 1966RURussian mathematician (born 1966)
- Grigoriy Dobryginb. 1986RUnot in their usual nameRussian actor, director (born 1986)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 4.8K | #174 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 211 | #36,929 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #36,929 |
| RU Russia | Russian Names (Pereverzeva, 2011) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Grigori mean, and where does it come from?
- variante regional de Gregori. Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- In which country does Grigori have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 504 thousand people named Gregory, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Grigori most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Grigori is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 704 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Grigori?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɹɪɡɔɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Grigori a male or female name?
- Grigori is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Grigori?
- In the etymology graph, Gregory, Gregorio and Grzegorz are forms of the same name in other languages; Grisha is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Grigori?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 4,781 people named Grigori, about 1 in 704 residents.
- How common is Grigori compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Grigori is the 64th most common given name of 85,149 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/grigoriThe 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, “Grigori” — the 64th most common given name in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.