Grunewald
surname · Latin script
Meaning: An area of forest in Berlin, Germany
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡɹənɪwɔɫd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Grunewald is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 191K
- LULuxembourg≈1 in 63K
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 Grunewald 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)
- Sources
- 260 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Grünewald in DE Germany, SE Sweden, LU Luxembourg and Gruenewald in CD Congo - Kinshasa.
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)
An area of forest in Berlin, Germany.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Grunewald 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 | #601 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Grünewald | 110 |
| US United States | — | 1,738 | 1 in 191K | 1.8K | Grunewald | 260 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Gruenewald | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 654 | 1 in 324K | 654 | — | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Grunewald | 18 |
| SE Sweden | — | 83 | 1 in 123K | 83 | Grünewald | 14 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Grunewald | 3 |
| LU Luxembourg | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Grünewald | 4 |
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 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). 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)
Grunewald 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.
variant of Griinwald (see GrunWALD).
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)
- Johann Gustav Grunewaldb. 1805DEGerman painter (1805-1878)
- Arthur Grunewaldb. 1902DEGerman politician (1902-1985)
- Ruth Maria Wagnerb. 1915DEnot in their usual nameGerman journalist and radio host (1915–1979)
- Karl Grunewaldb. 1921SESwedish psychiatrist
- Jacquot Grunewaldb. 1934FRFrench writer
- Michel Grunewaldb. 1942FRFrench germanist
- Fritz Grunewaldb. 1949DEGerman mathematician (1949-2011)
- Barbara Grunewaldb. 1951DEGerman jurist
- Olivier Grunewaldb. 1959FRFrench photographer
- Gabriele Grunewaldb. 1986USAmerican middle- and long-distance runner
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)
Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #15,207 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,525 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,509 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 654 | #13,375 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 60 | #10,840 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Grunewald mean, and where does it come from?
- An area of forest in Berlin, Germany. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Grunewald?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɹənɪwɔɫd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Grunewald have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.1 thousand people named Grunewald in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grünewald.
- How common is the name Grunewald?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,738 people named Grunewald in 2010, about 1 in 191 thousand residents.
- How common is Grunewald compared with other names?
- In Germany, Grunewald is the 601st 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/grunewaldThe 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, “Grunewald” — the 601st most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.