Hruby
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname for a large individual, from hruby ‘big’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhɹubi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hruby is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country, where it is the 84th most common surname.
- CZCzechia1 in 2.1K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 8.5K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 71K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
5,119 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hrubý in CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia.
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)
nickname for a large individual, from hruby ‘big’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hruby 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #84 | 5,119 | 1 in 2.1K | 5.1K | Hrubý | 72 |
| CN China | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 306K | — | Hruby | 3 |
| US United States | — | 1,686 | 1 in 197K | 1.7K | Hruby | 61 |
| SK Slovakia | #764 | 640 | 1 in 8.5K | 640 | Hrubý | 31 |
| PL Poland | — | 269 | 1 in 142K | 137 | Hruby | 27 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Hruby | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Hruby | 4 |
5,119 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Hruby 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 szl, fat, thick
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)
- Vincenz Hrubyb. 1856CZCzech chess player (1856-1917)
- Sergius Hrubyb. 1869ATAustrian artist, 1869-1943
- Elisabeth Hrubyb. 1871DEGerman actress
- Karl Hrubyb. 1912ATAustrian ophthalmologist (1912-1995)
- Peter Hrubyb. 1921AUCzech academic and writer (1921-2017)
- Kurt Hrubyb. 1921ATAustrian writer (1921–1992)
- Walter Hrubyb. 1947ATAustrian radiologist
- Zbigniew Hrubyb. 1954PLPolish physician
- Jill Hrubyb. 1959American civil servant
- Aubrey HrubyUSbusinesswoman
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 20 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,894 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #16,964 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,260 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 137 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 137 | #23,161 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 132 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 132 | #23,433 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 8 | #89,105 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 8 | #18,909 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Hruby mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for a large individual, from hruby ‘big’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hruby?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɹubi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hruby have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 5.1 thousand people named Hruby, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hrubý.
- Where is Hruby most common?
- Hruby is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hruby?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 5,119 people named Hruby, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Hruby compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Hruby is the 84th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hrubyThe 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, “Hruby” — the 84th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.