Grós
surname · Latin script
Grós is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: nickname for a large man, from Old French gros ‘big’, ‘fat’. Late Latin grossus, of Germanic origin. See also Legros.
- ESSpain1 in 58K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 3.3K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 31K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
2,947 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gros in US United States, ES Spain, BR Brazil and 2 more.
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 man, from Old French gros ‘big’, ‘fat’. Late Latin grossus, of Germanic origin. See also Legros.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Grós 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,947 | 1 in 113K | 2.9K | Gros | 62 |
| PL Poland | 979 | 1 in 39K | 505 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 858 | 1 in 58K | 858 | Gros | 82 |
| SI Slovenia | 630 | 1 in 3.3K | 630 | — | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 596 | 1 in 355K | 596 | Gros | 40 |
| NL Netherlands | 302 | 1 in 57K | 302 | Gros | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | 272 | 1 in 31K | 272 | Gros | 7 |
| HR Croatia | 128 | 1 in 33K | 128 | — | — |
2,947 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Grós 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 kea, 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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Grós mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for a large man, from Old French gros ‘big’, ‘fat’. Late Latin grossus, of Germanic origin. See also Legros. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- In which country does Grós have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Grós, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gros.
- Where is Grós most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Grós is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 3.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Grós?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,947 people named Grós in 2010, about 1 in 113 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gr%C3%B3sThe 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, “Grós”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.