Gruszka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from gruszka ‘pear’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who grew or sold pears, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble the fruit
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡruʂka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gruszka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 3K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 140K
- CZCzechia1 in 149K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
12,603 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from gruszka ‘pear’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who grew or sold pears, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble the fruit. As a Jewish surname it is mainly ornamental.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gruszka 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #229 | 12,603 | 1 in 3K | 6.3K | Gruszka | 98 |
| US United States | — | 636 | 1 in 523K | 636 | Gruszka | 96 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 300K | — | Gruszka | 47 |
| FR France | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 314K | 36 | Gruszka | 2 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 398K | — | Gruszka | 7 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 72 | 1 in 149K | 72 | Gruszka | 16 |
| NO Norway | — | 26 | 1 in 210K | 26 | — | 3 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 140K | listed | — | 4 |
12,603 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)
Gruszka 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 Polish, pear (fruit)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Józef Gruszkab. 1947PLPolish politician (1947-2020)
- Andrzej Gruszkab. 1956PLPolish mining engineer
- Barbara Gruszka-Zychb. 1960PLPolish poet, literary critic (b. 1960)
- Grzegorz Gruszkab. 1962PLPolish politician and deputy
- Piotr Gruszkab. 1977PLformer Polish volleyball player, coach
- Karolina Gruszkab. 1980PLPolish actress
- Karolina Gruszkab. 1992PLPolish association football player
- Beata GruszkaPLresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-1021-4075
- Damian GruszkaPLresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-9544-6106
- Anna Głogowska-GruszkaPLresearcher
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 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6.3K | #285 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6.3K | #287 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 636 | #37,603 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 636 | #35,395 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 584 | #36,232 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 72 | #22,013 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 72 | #9,002 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 36 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Gruszka come from?
- from gruszka ‘pear’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who grew or sold pears, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble the fruit. As a Jewish surname it is mainly ornamental. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gruszka?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡruʂka/ (IPA) for Polish.
- What does the name Gruszka mean?
- Recorded meaning: from gruszka ‘pear’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who grew or sold pears, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble the fruit.
- In which country does Gruszka have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Gruszka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gruszka.
- Where is Gruszka most common?
- Gruszka is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gruszka?
- In Poland, the national register counted 12,603 people named Gruszka in 2026, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Gruszka compared with other names?
- In Poland, Gruszka is the 229th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Gruszka” — the 229th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.