Grosser
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: comparative form of gross: more gross
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡɹoʊsɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Grosser is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 63K
- USUnited States1 in 317K
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 Grosser itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 230 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Groesser in UG Uganda.
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)
1. nickname for a big man, from an inflected form of Gross. 2. (also Grosser) distinguishing epithet for the larger or older of two bearers of the same personal name, from the comparative form of the adjective gross ‘big’, ‘large’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Grosser is read(measured from records)
Grosser is one spelling over 2 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.
- English58%
comparative form of gross: more gross
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German29%
1. nickname for a big man, from an inflected form of Gross. 2. (also Grosser) distinguishing epithet for the larger or older of two bearers of the same personal name, from the comparative form of the adjective gross ‘big’, ‘large’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
inflection of gross:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Adjektivischer Übername ‘groß’ mit -er; morphologisches Muster: er-Erweiterung, regionale Nebenform. Bearer count: 3008.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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 in the world(measured from records)
Grosser 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 | #977 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | Grosser | 122 |
| UG Uganda | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Groesser | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,049 | 1 in 317K | 1.3K | Grosser | 230 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Grosser | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Grosser | 83 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Grosser | 22 |
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 2000; the dfa-band-3 register. 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)
Grosser is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, bulky, heavy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, grossiste
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Karl Grosserb. 1850DEGerman architect
- Wilhelm Carl Heinrich Grosserb. 1869PLGerman botanist (1869-1942)
- Philip Grosserb. 1890USAmerican anarchist
- Günther Grosserb. 1917DEGerman politician (1917-1988)
- Alfred Grosserb. 1925FRWriter, sociologist and political scientist (1925–2024)
- Renate Grosserb. 1927DEGerman actress (born 1927)
- Peter Grosserb. 1938DEGerman footballer (1938–2021)
- Thomas Grosserb. 1965DEGerman footballer (1965-2008)
- Adrian Grosserb. 1968DEGerman journalist
- Arthur GrosserCACanadian actor
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)
Attested in 26 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,208 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,812 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,031 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 3 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Grosser come from?
- 1. nickname for a big man, from an inflected form of Gross. 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Grosser?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɹoʊsɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Grosser mean?
- In English, comparative form of gross: more gross
- In which country does Grosser have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.5 thousand people named Grosser in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grosser.
- How common is the name Grosser?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,049 people named Grosser in 2010, about 1 in 317 thousand residents.
- How common is Grosser compared with other names?
- In Germany, Grosser is the 977th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/grosserThe 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, “Grosser” — the 977th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.