Grisé

surname · Latin script

Meaning: gray, grayish (color/colour)

Grisé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Central African Republic than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 334K(measured from records)
  • CFCentral African Republic≈1 in 4.7K
  • CACanada≈1 in 94K

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.

Central African Republic (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,300 people, est.

Sources
210 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Central African Republic, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Grise in US United States, CA Canada, GB United Kingdom and 2 more.

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)

gray, grayish (color/colour)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Grisé 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.

Where Grisé is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CF Central African Republic#147≈1,300 est.≈1 in 4.7K—Grise1
US United States—9971 in 334K997Grise210
CA Canada—≈400 est.≈1 in 94K—Grise70
BR Brazil—1921 in 1.1M192——
GB United Kingdom—≈190 est.≈1 in 352K—Grise12
LR Liberia—≈44 est.≈1 in 115K—Grise1

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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Grisé is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Grise

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Grise, Grïsë

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Grise

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt

    Also written Grise

  • Greek surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece

    Also written Grise

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Grise

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Grise

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States

    Also written Grise

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Grisé 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 French, de l’ancien français grisé « grisonné », surnom d’après la couleur des cheveux.

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

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)

1930194019501960Catherine M. Grisé, b. 1936Claude Grisé, b. 1939Richard Grisé, b. 1944Yolande Grisé, b. 1944Jacques Grisé, b. 1944Suzanne Grisé, b. 1946Jacques Grisé, b. 1951François Grisé, b. 1953

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

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

What does the name Grisé mean, and where does it come from?
gray, grayish (color/colour) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Grisé have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Grisé in the Central African Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grise.
How common is the name Grisé?
In the United States, the national register counted 997 people named Grisé in 2010, about 1 in 334 thousand residents.
How common is Grisé compared with other names?
In the Central African Republic, Grisé is the 147th most common surname of 1,109 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Grisé” — the 147th most common surname in Central African Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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