Gronow
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Welsh Goronwy/Gronw/Gronow, Old Welsh Guorgonui; first attested Kenwrig ap Grono 1391 Chirk
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
/ɡɹənoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gronow is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 221K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 129K
- FIFinland1 in 136K
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 Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 129K (inferred from the name graph)
≈300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
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)from Welsh Goronwy/Gronw/Gronow, Old Welsh Guorgonui; first attested Kenwrig ap Grono 1391 Chirk.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gronow 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 221K | — | Gronow | 95 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 395K | — | Gronow | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 318K | — | Gronow | 44 |
| AU Australia | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 129K | — | Gronow | 70 |
| US United States | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | listed | Gronow | 89 |
| FI Finland | 41 | 1 in 136K | 41 | Gronow | 5 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jacobus Gronoviusb. 1645NLnot in their usual nameDutch classical scholar (1645–1716)
- Johan Frederik Gronoviusb. 1686NLnot in their usual nameDutch physician, botanist and magistrate and university teacher from Leiden (1686-1762), owner/creator of the album amicorum of Johannes Fredericus Gronovius
- Rees Howell Gronowb. 1794GBBritish politician and memoirist (1794-1865)
- Ernst Gronowb. 1856DEGerman politician (1856-1932)
- Benjamin Gronowb. 1887GBWelsh rugby union footballer and coach, and rugby league footballer
- Pekka Gronowb. 1943FIFinnish author
- Jukka Gronowb. 1945FIFinnish sociologist
- Paweł GronowPLPolish diplomat
- Dietrich GronowRoman Catholic bishop
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 41 | #26,954 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Gronow mean, and where does it come from?
- from Welsh Goronwy/Gronw/Gronow, Old Welsh Guorgonui; first attested Kenwrig ap Grono 1391 Chirk. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Gronow?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɹənoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gronow have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 297 people named Gronow in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gronow.
- How common is the name Gronow?
- In Finland, the national register counted 41 people named Gronow, about 1 in 136 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gronowThe 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, “Gronow”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.