Gruen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Middle High German gruene ‘green’, ‘fresh’, ‘raw’, hence a nickname for someone who habitually dressed in green, a topographic name for someone who lived in a green and leafy place, or a habitati
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Gruen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,227 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Gruen is also written גרואן in Hebrew.
- USUnited States1 in 271K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 310Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 320Kfew records
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 Gruen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 230 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 146K (inferred from the name graph)
1,227 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Gruen in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)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)from Middle High German gruene ‘green’, ‘fresh’, ‘raw’, hence a nickname for someone who habitually dressed in green, a topographic name for someone who lived in a green and leafy place, or a habitational name for someone from a place named with this word, such as Gruna, Grunau in Silesia.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gruen is found
(measured from records)Gruen 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 | 1,227 | 1 in 271K | 1.4K | Gruen | 230 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 378K | — | Gruen | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 502K | — | Gruen | 24 |
| CA Canada | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 322K | — | Gruen | 29 |
| PH Philippines | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Gruen | 5 |
| AU Australia | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 314K | — | Gruen | 33 |
| DK Denmark | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 146K | — | Gruen | 4 |
| SG Singapore | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 229K | — | Gruen | 3 |
1,227 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)Gruen 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.
ornamental name from German griin ‘green’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Danish, definite singular of gru
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)- Victor Gruenb. 1903ATAustrian architect (1903-1980)
- Erich S. Gruenb. 1935ATAmerican historian
- Sara Gruenb. 1969CACanadian and American writer
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gruen mean, and where does it come from?
- from Middle High German gruene ‘green’, ‘fresh’, ‘raw’, hence a nickname for someone who habitually dressed in green, a topographic name for someone who lived in a green and leafy place, or a habitati… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gruen?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Gruen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gruen. After it come South Africa, United Kingdom, Canada and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Gruen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,227 people named Gruen in 2010, about 1 in 271 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gruenThe 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, “Gruen” — ranked 19592nd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.