Gruz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: rubble (broken remains of an object)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɣɾuθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gruz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 205K(measured from records)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 206K
- CZCzechia1 in 243K
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)
- Record sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- 1 in 205K (inferred from the name graph)
187 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)rubble (broken remains of an object)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gruz 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 | 187 | 1 in 205K | 96 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 143 | 1 in 2.3M | 143 | Gruz | 27 |
| PH Philippines | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Gruz | 4 |
| FR France | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 206K | — | Gruz | 7 |
| CZ Czechia | 44 | 1 in 243K | 44 | — | — |
187 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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)Gruz 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 Russian, Afanasii Gruz, city-governor. 1476.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)- Max Gruzb. 1939FRFrench politician
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 143 | #120,901 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 143 | #113,519 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 130 | #134,631 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 96 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 96 | #30,865 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 91 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 91 | #31,865 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 12 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 9 | #85,282 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 9 | #18,860 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 7 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Gruz mean, and where does it come from?
- rubble (broken remains of an object) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gruz?
- A machine transcription gives /ɣɾuθ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Gruz have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 187 people named Gruz, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gruz most common?
- Gruz is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 205 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gruz?
- In Poland, the national register counted 187 people named Gruz in 2026, about 1 in 205 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gruzThe 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, “Gruz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.