Grudzien

surname · Latin script

Meaning: literally, ‘December’, hence a surname bestowed on someone with some particular association with the month, such as being due to pay rent then or having been baptized then

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026

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

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 739K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 5.9K
  • NONorway1 in 137K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

6,510 people, 2026

Record sources
140 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

literally, ‘December’, hence a surname bestowed on someone with some particular association with the month, such as being due to pay rent then or having been baptized then.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Grudzien 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 Grudzien is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland6,5101 in 5.9K3.3KGrudzien2
US United States4501 in 739K450Grudzien140
BR Brazil771 in 2.7M77——
NO Norway401 in 137K40——
AR Argentina321 in 1.4M32——
DK Denmark61 in 978K6—1

6,510 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling grudzień. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Grudzien is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Grudzień, Grudzién

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, United States, Panama

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Grudzieñ, Grudzień

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Grudzień

  • Norwegian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Iceland

    Languages: Norwegian, Icelandic

    Also written Grudzień

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

    Also written Grudzień

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Grudzień

28 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)

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 Grudzien,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Grudzien
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010450#47,186
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000424#47,120
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020415#53,758
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—77#76,923
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—40#30,296
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—32—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20266—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—6#177,230
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—6#55,462
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#333,083
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Grudzien mean, and where does it come from?
literally, ‘December’, hence a surname bestowed on someone with some particular association with the month, such as being due to pay rent then or having been baptized then. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Grudzien?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɹədzin/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Grudzien have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 6.5 thousand people named Grudzien, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grudzien.
Where is Grudzien most common?
Grudzien is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.9 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Grudzien?
In Poland, the national register counted 6,510 people named Grudzien in 2026, about 1 in 5.9 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, “Grudzien”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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