Gräs

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gräs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Several etymologies: * Borrowed from French Gras, a nickname for a stout person, from gras (“fat”) * Borrowed from Catalan Gras, from gras (“fat, stout”) * Borrowed from German Gras, variant of the su.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 21K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 24K
  • UYUruguay1 in 51K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

2,359 people

Sources
15 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gras in ES Spain, NL Netherlands, US United States.

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)

Derivation of Gräs: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Gräs
  1. FrenchGras(measured from records)
  2. French rootgras“fat”(measured from records)
  3. CatalanGras(measured from records)
  4. Catalan rootgras“fat“fat, stout”(measured from records)
  5. GermanGras(measured from records)

Several etymologies: * Borrowed from French Gras, a nickname for a stout person, from gras (“fat”) * Borrowed from Catalan Gras, from gras (“fat, stout”) * Borrowed from German Gras, variant of the surname Grass

Sources 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gräs 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 Gräs is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain2,3591 in 21K2.4KGras7
NL Netherlands7131 in 24K713Gras3
US United States6501 in 512K667Gras9
AR Argentina5151 in 88K515——
BR Brazil3971 in 533K397——
BE Belgium1751 in 67K175—1
UY Uruguay671 in 51K67——

2,359 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Gräs is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Netherlands, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Gras, Graes, Grás, Graës, Graś

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Grąs, Grás, Grâs, Gras

  • a separate surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Spain, Netherlands

    Also written Gras, Gřaš

1 further group 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)

Gräs 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 Swedish, grass; any plant of the family Poaceae

    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 4 sources across 3 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Gräs mean, and where does it come from?
Several etymologies: * Borrowed from French Gras, a nickname for a stout person, from gras (“fat”) * Borrowed from Catalan Gras, from gras (“fat, stout”) * Borrowed from German Gras, variant of the su… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
In which country does Gräs have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Gräs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gras.
Where is Gräs most common?
Gräs is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 21 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Gräs?
In Spain, the national register counted 2,359 people named Gräs, about 1 in 21 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, “Gräs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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