Gro
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gro is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Norway. Recorded meaning: Old Norse Gróa from the verb gróa ("to grow").
- Norway (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 100 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Old Norse Gróa from the verb gróa ("to grow").
Sources 2
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gro counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Gro 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.
Scandinavian (esp. Norwegian): from an Old Norse female personal name of uncertain derivation. It may derive from the Norse verb gróa to grow, increase, or possibly be related to the Celtic element gruach woman.
as a word
IATA airport code for Girona–Costa Brava Airport, which serves Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian, a female given name, popular in the mid-twentieth century
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Abbreviation of Guerrero: a state of Mexico.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, to grow (of plants and body hair)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, a sex worker; a prostitute
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)
- Gro Harlem Brundtlandb. 1939NO29th Prime Minister of Norway
- Gro Hillestad Thuneb. 1943NONorwegian politician
- Gro Hagemannb. 1945NONorwegian historian and professor emeritus, Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo
- Gro Balasb. 1950NONorwegian politician
- Gro Holmb. 1958NONorwegian journalist
- Gro Dahleb. 1962NONorwegian writer
- Gro Skartveitb. 1965NONorwegian politician
- Gro Espesethb. 1972NONorwegian footballer (born 1972)
- Gro Hammerseng-Edinb. 1980NONorwegian handball player
- Gro Hellesnesactor
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 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 88 | #69,672 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Gro mean, and where does it come from?
- Old Norse Gróa from the verb gróa ("to grow"). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- In which country does Gro have the most bearers?
- Gro is most frequently recorded in Norway.
What do you want to know about Gro?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/groThe 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, “Gro”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.