Grine
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Possibly an Americanized form of Norwegian Grini, a common habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads in southeastern Norway named Grini, from Old Norse grqnvin, a compound of grqn ‘spruce’ -I-
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡɹaɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Grine is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 108K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 593K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 15K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Possibly an Americanized form of Norwegian Grini, a common habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads in southeastern Norway named Grini, from Old Norse grqnvin, a compound of grqn ‘spruce’ -I- vin ‘meadow’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Grine 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | #589 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Grine | 28 |
| FR France | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 108K | 93 | Grine | 149 |
| US United States | — | 561 | 1 in 593K | 561 | Grine | 140 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Grine | 6 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Grine | 24 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Grine | 8 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the dz-kaggle-names 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)
Grine 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 English, probably a variant of Grain, Grain, a topographic name for someone who lived by an inlet or at the fork of a river. Middle English greine, grayne.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Altered spelling of German Grein.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In ang, dative singular of grin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, to laugh
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, to cry
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)
- Frederick E Grineb. 1952USAmerican anthropologist
- Hamid Grineb. 1954DZAlgerian writer and journalist
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 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 561 | #39,212 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 511 | #45,147 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 501 | #41,060 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 108 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 93 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 84 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 62 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1 | — |
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 Grine mean, and where does it come from?
- Possibly an Americanized form of Norwegian Grini, a common habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads in southeastern Norway named Grini, from Old Norse grqnvin, a compound of grqn ‘spruce’ -I-… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Grine?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɹaɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Grine have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Grine in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grine.
- How common is the name Grine?
- In the United States, the national register counted 561 people named Grine in 2010, about 1 in 593 thousand residents.
- How common is Grine compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Grine is the 589th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/grineThe 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, “Grine” — the 589th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.