Gryn

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Gryn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 73K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 607K
  • DKDenmark1 in 978K

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)

523 people, 2026

Sources
52 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 73K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gryn 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.

Where Gryn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland5231 in 73K267Gryn52
US United States1241 in 2.7M174Gryn18
GB United Kingdom≈49 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Gryn7
NO Norway91 in 607K9—2
IL Israel≈6 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Gryn1
DK Denmark61 in 978K6——

523 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling gryń. 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gryn is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, United Kingdom, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Green, Greene, Грын, Greęn, Греен

  • Norwegian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Iceland

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic

    Also written Gryń

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gryń

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Gryń

  • Hebrew surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Bulgaria, Romania

    Also written גרין, גרון, Green, Greene, Grin

  • Czech surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia

    Also written Gryń

20 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gryn 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 Swedish, hulled grain, groats

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Danish, grain

    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)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Gryn
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020174#108,494
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000137#117,538
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010124#135,593
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202690—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—90#32,549
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202684—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—84#33,886
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—9#59,107
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—6#57,517
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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

In which country does Gryn have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 523 people named Gryn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gryn.
Where is Gryn most common?
Gryn is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 73 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Gryn?
In Poland, the national register counted 523 people named Gryn in 2026, about 1 in 73 thousand residents.

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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, “Gryn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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