Grippo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. from a Germanic personal name Grippo, from grim ‘mask’, ‘helmet’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡɹɪpoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Grippo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 50K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 140K
- UYUruguay1 in 188K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
1,205 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
1. from a Germanic personal name Grippo, from grim ‘mask’, ‘helmet’. 2. from the Calabrian dialect word grippa ‘wrinkle’, probably a nickname for someone with a wrinkled complexion.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Grippo 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 | 1,205 | 1 in 276K | 1.2K | Grippo | 3 |
| AR Argentina | 906 | 1 in 50K | 906 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 60 | 1 in 140K | 60 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 55 | 1 in 3.8M | 55 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 26 | 1 in 1.9M | 26 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 18 | 1 in 188K | 18 | — | — |
1,205 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Grippo 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 Italian, first-person singular present indicative of grippare
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)
- Pasquale Grippob. 1845ITItalian politician (1845-1933)
- Ugo Grippob. 1932ITItalian politician (1932-2017)
- Carlos Grippob. 1946UYUruguayan painter
- Carlo Grippob. 1955ITItalian middle-distance runner
- Valentina Grippob. 1971ITItalian politician (born 1971)
- Simone Grippob. 1988CHSwiss footballer
- Maria Teresa Gripporesearcher
- Antonello GrippoITItalian neurologist, university professor, and medical director
- Angela GrippoUSUS neuroscientist and health psychologist
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,633 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,711 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,036 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 906 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 60 | #16,209 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 55 | #98,063 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 26 | #70,921 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 26 | #69,549 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 18 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Grippo come from?
- 1. from a Germanic personal name Grippo, from grim ‘mask’, ‘helmet’. 2. from the Calabrian dialect word grippa ‘wrinkle’, probably a nickname for someone with a wrinkled complexion. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Grippo?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɹɪpoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Grippo mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. from a Germanic personal name Grippo, from grim ‘mask’, ‘helmet’.
- In which country does Grippo have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Grippo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grippo.
- Where is Grippo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Grippo is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 50 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Grippo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,205 people named Grippo in 2010, about 1 in 276 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/grippoThe 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, “Grippo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.