Grizzle
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Americanized form of French and Swiss French Grisel or Grizel, derivatives of Gris, from Old French gris ‘gray’, hence a nickname for a man with gray hair, a gray complexion, or who habitually wore gr
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Grizzle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 77K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 117K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 27K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 307 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
4,347 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Americanized form of French and Swiss French Grisel or Grizel, derivatives of Gris, from Old French gris ‘gray’, hence a nickname for a man with gray hair, a gray complexion, or who habitually wore gray.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Grizzle 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 | 4,347 | 1 in 77K | 4.3K | Grizzle | 307 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Grizzle | 70 |
| CA Canada | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Grizzle | 30 |
| IT Italy | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 261K | — | Grizzle | 2 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Grizzle | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Grizzle | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Grizzle | 11 |
4,347 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. 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)
Grizzle 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 English, A dark grey colour.
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)
- Stanley G. Grizzleb. 1918CACanadian politician (1918–2016)
- Mary R. Grizzleb. 1921USAmerican politician (1921-2006)
- Jessy W. GrizzleUSAmerican engineer
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 8 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.3K | #7,638 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.1K | #7,413 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.1K | #7,765 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Grizzle mean, and where does it come from?
- Americanized form of French and Swiss French Grisel or Grizel, derivatives of Gris, from Old French gris ‘gray’, hence a nickname for a man with gray hair, a gray complexion, or who habitually wore gr… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Grizzle have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Grizzle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grizzle.
- How common is the name Grizzle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,347 people named Grizzle in 2010, about 1 in 77 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/grizzleThe 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, “Grizzle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.