Griza

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɡɾizɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Griza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 607K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 3.6M
  • ESSpain1 in 3.6M

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

349 people

Sources
39 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 607K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Croatian

»živi kamen, stijena, kamen koji strši u moru ali nije gladak«

Sources 1

  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Griza 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 Griza is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil3491 in 607K349Griza39
ES Spain141 in 3.6M14Griza4
US United States≈8 est.≈1 in 42M—Griza6
VE Venezuela≈4 est.≈1 in 7.5M—Griza4
CZ Czechia31 in 3.6M3——
PL Poland21 in 19M2——

349 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)

Griza is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Ukrainian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Гриза, Гріза

24 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)

Griza is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Serbo-Croatian, genitive singular of griz

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Romanian, to get tipsy

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Esperanto, gray

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Serbo-Croatian, »živi kamen, stijena, kamen koji strši u moru ali nije gladak«

    as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

  • In Croatian, srdobolja, dizenterija

    as a wordMatasović, Pronk, Ivšić, Brozović Rončević (eds.), Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika, sv. 1-2 (2016)

  • In Romanian, GRIZÁ, grizez, vb. I. Tranz. și refl. (Livr.) A (se) îmbăta (ușor); a (se) ameți.

    as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalPrezado(a) Griza,Dear Griza, (English)
InformalPrezado(a) Griza,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Griza?
A machine transcription gives /ɡɾizɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
In which country does Griza have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 349 people named Griza, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled griza.
Where is Griza most common?
Griza is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 607 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Griza?
In Brazil, the national register counted 349 people named Griza, about 1 in 607 thousand residents.

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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, “Griza”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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