Groenewold
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Dutch: habitational name from any of various places (for example, in North Brabant, Gelderland, and South Holland) named Groenewoud, from Middle Dutch groene ‘green’ + woudt ‘wood’, ‘forest’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈxruːnəʋɔlt/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Groenewold is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 16K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 380Kfew records
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Groenewold itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 named Gronewold, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Rwanda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Gronewold in US United States, DE Germany, MY Malaysia and 1 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)habitational name from any of various places (for example, in North Brabant, Gelderland, and South Holland) named Groenewoud, from Middle Dutch groene ‘green’ + woudt ‘wood’, ‘forest’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Groenewold is read
(measured from records)Groenewold is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English59%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Groenewold in English.
- German19%
Herkunftsname zu Siedlungsnamen mit Groene-/Grön- + Wald; Karte zeigt ö/oe und o/u-Vokalvariation. 558 Bearer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
- Dutch9.2%
habitational name from any of various places (for example, in North Brabant, Gelderland, and South Holland) named Groenewoud, from Middle Dutch groene ‘green’ + woudt ‘wood’, ‘forest’
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- Spanish6.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Groenewold in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Groenewold is found
(measured from records)Groenewold 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Gronewold | 65 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,100 | 1 in 16K | 1.1K | Groenewold | 49 |
| RW Rwanda | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Groenewold | 1 |
| US United States | 732as Gronewold | 1 in 454K | 753 | Gronewold | 150 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 257K | — | Gronewold | 4 |
| BB Barbados | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Gronewold | 2 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Kurt Groenewoldb. 1937DEGerman jurist and opinion journalist
- David Groenewoldb. 1973DEGerman film producer (1973-2019)
- Renate Groenewoldb. 1976NLDutch speed skater and cyclist
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Groenewold mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of various places (for example, in North Brabant, Gelderland, and South Holland) named Groenewoud, from Middle Dutch groene ‘green’ + woudt ‘wood’, ‘forest’ Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Groenewold?
- In Dutch /ˈxruːnəʋɔlt/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Groenewold?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Gronewold in Germany, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Netherlands, Rwanda, United States and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Groenewold?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,100 people named Groenewold in 2007, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/groenewoldThe 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, “Groenewold”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.