Grošs
surname · Latin script
Grošs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: nickname for a big man, from Middle High German groz ‘large’, ‘thick’, ‘corpulent’, German gross. The Jewish name has been Hebraicized as Gadol, from Hebrew gadol ‘large’.
- ATAustria≈1 in 3.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 4.4K
- USUnited States1 in 4.5K
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 Grošs 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 520 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
74,503 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gross in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CH Switzerland and 3 more and Groß in DE Germany.
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)
- Middle High Germangroz(measured from records)
- Hebrewgadol(measured from records)
nickname for a big man, from Middle High German groz ‘large’, ‘thick’, ‘corpulent’, German gross. The Jewish name has been Hebraicized as Gadol, from Hebrew gadol ‘large’. This name is widespread throughout central and eastern Europe, not only in German-speaking countries.
Sources 8
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Where in the world(measured from records)
Grošs 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #364 | 74,503 | 1 in 4.5K | 75K | Gross | 520 |
| DE Germany | #164 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | listed | Groß | 194 |
| GB United Kingdom | #603 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | listed | Gross | 170 |
| BR Brazil | — | 7,824 | 1 in 27K | 7.8K | — | 7 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Gross | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | #383 | 2,726 | 1 in 3.1K | 2.7K | Gross | 78 |
| AT Austria | #192 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Gross | 99 |
| JM Jamaica | #127 | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Gross | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 630as Gros | 1 in 3.3K | 630 | — | 2 |
74,503 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Grošs mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for a big man, from Middle High German groz ‘large’, ‘thick’, ‘corpulent’, German gross. The Jewish name has been Hebraicized as Gadol, from Hebrew gadol ‘large’. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 6 other sources.
- In which country does Grošs have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 75 thousand people named Grošs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gross.
- Where is Grošs most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Grošs is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 3.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Grošs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 74,503 people named Grošs in 2010, about 1 in 4.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Grošs compared with other names?
- In the United States, Grošs is the 364th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gro%C5%A1sThe 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, “Grošs” — the 364th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.