Gruden

surname · Latin script

Meaning: nickname from gruda ‘clod’, ‘soil’

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɡɹudən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gruden is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 2.3K
  • HRCroatia1 in 41K

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.

Slovenia (measured from records)

897 people

Sources
144 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Grudén in SE Sweden.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

nickname from gruda ‘clod’, ‘soil’. It may also be connected with gruden ‘December’, which is derived from the same word. Compare Polish Grudzien.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gruden 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.

Where Gruden is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SI Slovenia8971 in 2.3K897Gruden11
US United States3101 in 1.1M332Gruden144
IT Italy≈300 est.≈1 in 205K—Gruden13
HR Croatia1041 in 41K104——
CA Canada≈48 est.≈1 in 780K—Gruden14
SE Sweden≈34 est.≈1 in 298K—Grudén9
BZ Belize≈3 est.≈1 in 149K—Gruden1

897 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gruden is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Italy

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Grudén

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Grudén

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gruden is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Slovenian, December

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

188019001920194019601980Igo Gruden, b. 1893Mirko Gruden, b. 1911Paula Gruden, b. 1921Živa Gruden, b. 1948France Gruden, b. 1952Jon Gruden, b. 1963Matjaž Gruden, b. 1965Jay Gruden, b. 1967John Gruden, b. 1970

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)

FormalDear Gruden,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Gruden
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—897#201
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020332#64,670
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010310#64,200
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000296#63,141
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021104#7,681
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202175—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • 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)

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 Gruden come from?
nickname from gruda ‘clod’, ‘soil’. It may also be connected with gruden ‘December’, which is derived from the same word. Compare Polish Grudzien. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Gruden?
A machine transcription gives /ɡɹudən/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Gruden mean?
Recorded meaning: nickname from gruda ‘clod’, ‘soil’.
In which country does Gruden have the most bearers?
In Slovenia, the national register counted about 897 people named Gruden, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gruden.
Where is Gruden most common?
Gruden is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Gruden?
In Slovenia, the national register counted 897 people named Gruden, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.

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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, “Gruden”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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