Gruer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: indefinite plural of grue
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɡɹuɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gruer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 23K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 2M
- USUnited States1 in 3M
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
238 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)indefinite plural of grue
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gruer 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 238 | 1 in 23K | 238 | — | 4 |
| US United States | 112 | 1 in 3M | 118 | Gruer | 9 |
| BR Brazil | 37 | 1 in 5.7M | 37 | Gruer | 18 |
| SE Sweden | 5 | 1 in 2M | 5 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
238 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 238 | #6,596 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 118 | #132,259 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 112 | #147,253 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 110 | #149,446 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 37 | #129,205 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #55,293 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #333,096 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Gruer mean, and where does it come from?
- indefinite plural of grue Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gruer?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɹuɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gruer have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 238 people named Gruer, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gruer most common?
- Gruer is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 23 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gruer?
- In Norway, the national register counted 238 people named Gruer, about 1 in 23 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/gruerThe 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, “Gruer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.