Gruenwald
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈɡɹʊnwɔɫd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gruenwald is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Grünwald.
- DEGermany≈1 in 11Kas Grunwald(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 141Kas Grunwald
- PEPeru≈1 in 5.7M
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 Gruenwald 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 256 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.7M (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,400 named Grunwald, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Grunwald in US United States, DE Germany, PL Poland and 1 more and Grünwald in AT Austria, CZ Czechia.
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)- GermanGrünwald(measured from records)
- Middle High Germangruene(inferred from the name graph)via Grünwald
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Borrowed from German Grünwald.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gruenwald 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 | #578 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Grunwald | 137 |
| US United States | — | 2,356as Grunwald | 1 in 141K | 2.5K | Grunwald | 256 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,434as Grunwald | 1 in 27K | 725 | Grunwald | 62 |
| AT Austria | #652 | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Grünwald | 33 |
| BR Brazil | — | 654as Grunewald | 1 in 324K | 654 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 160as Grünwald | 1 in 53K | 160 | Grunwald | 26 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 136as Grünwald | 1 in 79K | 137 | Grünwald | 16 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | — | Gruenwald | 1 |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end). 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)Gruenwald 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 Latvian, Grīnvaldes muiža, kas atradās Bauskas apriņķa Zālītes pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Henriette Hohensteinb. 1862PLnot in their usual nameHolocaust victim (born 1862)
- Lilly Schäferb. 1877DEnot in their usual nameHolocaust victim (born 1877)
- Malchiel Gruenwaldb. 1882HUIsraeli businessman and citizen journalist (1882–1968)
- Richard Gruenwaldb. 1917CACanadian politician (1917-2010)
- Ute Gruenwaldb. 1943DEGerman painter
- John Gruenwaldb. 1951USAmerican artist, printmaker (born 1951)
- Mark Gruenwaldb. 1953USAmerican comic book writer (1953–1996)
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 967 | #26,563 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 959 | #24,453 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 679 | #33,567 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 23 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 23 | #82,276 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 22 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 22 | #84,277 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Gruenwald mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Grünwald. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Gruenwald?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɹʊnwɔɫd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gruenwald have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.4 thousand people named Grunwald in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gruenwald?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,356 people named Grunwald in 2010, about 1 in 141 thousand residents.
- How common is Gruenwald compared with other names?
- In Germany, Gruenwald is the 578th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gruenwaldThe 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, “Gruenwald” — the 578th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.