Grupe
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone living near a water channel, from Middle Low German griippe ‘ditch’, ‘channel’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡɹup/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Grupe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 47K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 434K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 104K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
topographic name for someone living near a water channel, from Middle Low German griippe ‘ditch’, ‘channel’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Grupe 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 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Grupe | 92 |
| US United States | 767 | 1 in 434K | 767 | Grupe | 140 |
| EG Egypt | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 459K | — | Grupe | 2 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 241K | — | Grupe | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 632K | — | Grupe | 9 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Grupe | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 22 | 1 in 267K | 22 | — | — |
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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Grupe 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.
In Latvian, Grūbu zupa
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Grūbas
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)
- Oskar Grupeb. 1878DEGerman geologist (1878–1940)
- Hermann Grupeb. 1881DEGerman writer (1881-1949)
- Richard Grupeb. 1915DEGerman boxer
- Ommo Grupeb. 1930DEGerman sports scientist (1930–2015)
- Wilhelm von Homburgb. 1940DEnot in their usual nameGerman boxer and actor (1940-2004)
- Frank Grupeb. 1952DEGerman film actor and stage actor
- Gerd Grupeb. 1955DEGerman university teacher
- Hermann Grupeb. 1956DEGerman politician
- Nicola Betina Grupeb. 1984DEGerman voice actor
- Tommy Grupeb. 1992DEGerman footballer
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 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 767 | #30,442 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 741 | #33,142 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 696 | #31,464 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 22 | #21,794 |
| 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 Grupe mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone living near a water channel, from Middle Low German griippe ‘ditch’, ‘channel’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Grupe?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɹup/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Grupe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Grupe in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grupe.
- How common is the name Grupe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 767 people named Grupe in 2010, about 1 in 434 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/grupeThe 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, “Grupe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.