Grunberg
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ornamental name from German griin ‘green’ + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ɣɾunbeɾɡ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Grunberg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 47K
- FRFrance≈1 in 200K
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 Grunberg 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)
- Record sources
- 229 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gruenberg in US United States, CA Canada, CH Switzerland and 1 more and Grünberg in DE Germany.
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)ornamental name from German griin ‘green’ + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Grunberg 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 | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Grünberg | 76 |
| US United States | — | 515as Gruenberg | 1 in 646K | 786 | Gruenberg | 229 |
| FR France | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 201K | 28 | — | 3 |
| CF Central African Republic | #182 | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Gruenberg | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 255K | — | Gruenberg | 40 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 72 | 1 in 240K | 72 | Grunberg | 15 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 72 | 1 in 47K | 72 | Grunberg | 16 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 41 | 1 in 205K | 41 | Gruenberg | 11 |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Grunberg 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.
habitational name from any of numerous places named Grunberg.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)- Albert Grunbergb. 1898(1898-1976)
- Alma Leeb. 1914GBnot in their usual nameBritish philatelist (1914–2000)
- Marianne Grunberg-Managob. 1921FRFrench biochemist (1921–2013)
- Gérard Grunbergb. 1943FRFrench political scientist
- Nisa Chevènementb. 1944FRnot in their usual nameFrench painter and sculptor
- Bernard Grunbergb. 1949FRFrench historian
- Laura Grunbergb. 1961RORomanian sociologist
- Greg Grunbergb. 1966USAmerican actor (born 1966)
- Adrian Grünbergb. 1970USfilm director
- Arnon Grunbergb. 1971NLDutch writer (born 1971)
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 382 | #57,536 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 363 | #56,310 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 351 | #54,880 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 72 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 58 | #28,062 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 51 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 47 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 31 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Grunberg mean, and where does it come from?
- ornamental name from German griin ‘green’ + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Grunberg?
- In Spanish /ɣɾunbeɾɡ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Grunberg have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Grunberg in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grünberg.
- How common is the name Grunberg?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 72 people named Grunberg in 2007, about 1 in 240 thousand residents.
- How common is Grunberg compared with other names?
- In the Central African Republic, Grunberg is the 182nd most common surname of 1,109 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/grunbergThe 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, “Grunberg” — the 182nd most common surname in Central African Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.