Gröne
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Zu ahd. gruoni/mhd. grüene; Variante mit ö statt ü, zeigt Senkung/Entrundung im Vokalismus
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Gröne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 35K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M
- CZCzechia1 in 5.4M
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 Gröne 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 152 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Groene in US United States, NL Netherlands, GB United Kingdom and 3 more and Grøne in DK Denmark.
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)Zu ahd. gruoni/mhd. grüene; Variante mit ö statt ü, zeigt Senkung/Entrundung im Vokalismus. 10 Types/1685 Tokens.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gröne 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Gröne | 61 |
| US United States | 523as Groene | 1 in 636K | 564 | Groene | 152 |
| FR France | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 675K | 10 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 75as Groene | 1 in 230K | 75 | Groene | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 944K | — | Groene | 8 |
| DK Denmark | 61as Grøne | 1 in 96K | 61 | Grøne | 17 |
| BE Belgium | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 608K | — | Groene | 9 |
| SG Singapore | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 423K | — | Groene | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | Groene | 5 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)Gröne 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 German, Zu mhd. grün „grün“; zeigt die Vokalvarianten ü / u / ö / o. 1685 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In Swedish, definite natural masculine singular of grön
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)- Heinrich Gröneb. 1650DEGerman sculptor
- Valentin Gröneb. 1817DEtheologian (1817–1882)
- Ferdinand E. Gröneb. 1850c.1850-1920 Nationality: British
- Georg Gröneb. 1864DEGerman sculptor
- Wilhelm Gröneb. 1905DEGerman pastor and merchant (1905–1978)
- Ruth Gröneb. 1933DEGerman witness of the Holocaust
- Bernd Gröneb. 1963DEGerman racing cyclist
- Hermann-Josef Gröneresearcher
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Gröne mean?
- Recorded meaning: Zu ahd. gruoni/mhd. grüene; Variante mit ö statt ü, zeigt Senkung/Entrundung im Vokalismus.
- In which country does Gröne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Gröne in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gröne.
- How common is the name Gröne?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 6 people named Gröne in 2024, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gr%C3%B6neThe 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, “Gröne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.