Griñe
surname · Latin script
Griñe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded 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-.
- HRCroatia1 in 132K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 593K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 600K
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)
- Record sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 132K (inferred from the name graph)
561 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Grine in ID Indonesia.
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)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’.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Griñe 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 | 561 | 1 in 593K | 561 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 76 | 1 in 658K | 76 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | — | Grine | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 42 | 1 in 5M | 42 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 32 | 1 in 132K | 34 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 14 | 1 in 600K | 14 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 7 | 1 in 781K | 7 | — | — |
561 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Griñe 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 and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Griñe have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 561 people named Griñe, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Griñe most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Griñe is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 132 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Griñe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 561 people named Griñe in 2010, about 1 in 593 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gri%C3%B1eThe 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, “Griñe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.