Gryka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: any plant of the genus Fagopyrum; buckwheat
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɪɹɪkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gryka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 51K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 421K
- SESweden1 in 928K
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 Gryka 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- 1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)
749 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
any plant of the genus Fagopyrum; buckwheat
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gryka 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.
749 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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)
Gryka 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 Albanian, definite nominative singular of grykë
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)
- Jan Grykab. 1959PLPolish artist
- Aleksandra Grykab. 1977PLPolish composer
- Magdalena Grykab. 1994PLGerman volleyball player
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 378 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 378 | #8,778 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 371 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 371 | #8,753 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 13 | #50,809 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 11 | #37,069 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- What does the name Gryka mean, and where does it come from?
- any plant of the genus Fagopyrum; buckwheat Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gryka?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪɹɪkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gryka have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 749 people named Gryka, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gryka most common?
- Gryka is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 51 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gryka?
- In Poland, the national register counted 749 people named Gryka in 2026, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gryka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/grykaThe 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, “Gryka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.