Grote
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: perhaps from ME grot ‘a groat’ or Dutch groot ‘great’; first attested William Grote 1279 RH (Beds). Also Huguenot surname from Antwerp/Bremen
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈɡɹoʊt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Grote is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 9.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 78K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 130K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 293 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)perhaps from ME grot ‘a groat’ or Dutch groot ‘great’; first attested William Grote 1279 RH (Beds). Also Huguenot surname from Antwerp/Bremen
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Grote is read
(measured from records)Grote 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.
- English64%
perhaps from ME grot ‘a groat’ or Dutch groot ‘great’; first attested William Grote 1279 RH (Beds). Also Huguenot surname from Antwerp/Bremen
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Obsolete spelling of groat.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German26%
Bearer count 3910+217; shows dental/plosive variation (t/th) in the Grote/Grothe cluster.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Niederdeutscher Familienname; Plattenvariante mit t/th-Schreibung (Konsonantismus). 4649 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Übername zu altsächs./mnd. grôt „groß“; zeigt t/th-Varianz im In- und Auslaut. Tokens: 4649.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Familienname mit t/th-Variation im Inlaut; t überwiegt gegenüber th (4430 Tokens).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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)Grote 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 | #761 | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | listed | Grote | 152 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #989 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Grote | 1 |
| US United States | — | 4,240 | 1 in 78K | 4.2K | Grote | 293 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 377K | — | Grote | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Grote | 59 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Grote | 2 |
| GR Greece | — | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Grote | 7 |
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; the dfa-band-2 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Harriet Groteb. 1792GBBritish writer, known also for her salon (1792–1878)
- George Groteb. 1794GBEnglish historian and political radical (1794–1871)
- Hermann Groteb. 1802DEGerman numismatist (1802–1895)
- Jerry Groteb. 1940USAmerican retired basketball player
- Jerry Groteb. 1942USAmerican baseball player (1942–2024)
- Ulrike Groteb. 1963DEGerman actress and screenwriter
- Andy Groteb. 1968DEGerman politician
- Marco Groteb. 1972DEGerman football player and manager
- Kurt Groteb. 1973USAmerican swimmer
- Dennis Groteb. 1986DEGerman footballer
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.2K | #7,807 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.1K | #7,490 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.8K | #8,338 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 2 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Grote mean, and where does it come from?
- perhaps from ME grot ‘a groat’ or Dutch groot ‘great’; first attested William Grote 1279 RH (Beds). Also Huguenot surname from Antwerp/Bremen Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Grote?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɹoʊt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Grote have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.8 thousand people named Grote in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grote.
- How common is the name Grote?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,240 people named Grote in 2010, about 1 in 78 thousand residents.
- How common is Grote compared with other names?
- In Germany, Grote is the 761st most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/groteThe 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, “Grote” — the 761st most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.