Grandi
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: Italian surname related to a word meaning “big/tall, large”
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/gɾandi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Grandi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 36K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 83K
- ITItaly≈1 in 8K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Italian surname related to a word meaning “big/tall, large”.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Grandi is read(measured from records)
Grandi is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish29%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Grandi in Spanish.
- Portuguese22%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Grandi in Portuguese.
- Italian15%
Italian surname related to a word meaning “big/tall, large”.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
forma plural de Grande
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- English13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Grandi in English.
- French7.9%
past participle of grandir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Grandi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 8K | listed | Grandi | 44 |
| BR Brazil | 2,543 | 1 in 83K | 2.5K | Grandi | 98 |
| AR Argentina | 1,248 | 1 in 36K | 1.2K | Grandi | 51 |
| IN India | 603 | 1 in 2.2M | 603 | — | 2 |
| FR France | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 115K | 63 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 272 | 1 in 31K | 272 | Grandi | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | 122 | 1 in 28K | 122 | Grandi | 13 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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)
Grandi is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, dative/ablative/locative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of grandis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mzs, alternative form of grándi: large, important
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, indefinite dative singular of grand
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)
- Alessandro Grandib. 1577ITItalian composer
- Guido Grandib. 1671ITmathematician and philosopher from Italy
- Giuseppe Grandib. 1843ITItalian sculptor (1843-1894)
- Guido Grandib. 1886ITItalian entomologist (1886-1970)
- Dino Grandib. 1895ITItalian politician (1895–1988)
- Bruno Grandib. 1934ITItalian artistic gymnast and sports official (1934–2019)
- Filippo Grandib. 1957ITItalian diplomat
- Irene Grandib. 1969ITItalian singer, songwriter, record producer, musician, actress and television host
- Riccardo Grandib. 1972ITItalian film director, screenwriter and designer
- Julia Grandib. 1987RURussian pornographic film director and producer, former pornographic actress
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 30 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.5K | #3,945 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.6K | #2,369 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.2K | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 603 | #8,022 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 272 | #4,804 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 122 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 93 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 93 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 65 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 63 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 60 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 59 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Grandi mean, and where does it come from?
- Italian surname related to a word meaning “big/tall, large”. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- How do you pronounce Grandi?
- A machine transcription gives /gɾandi/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Grandi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.8 thousand people named Grandi in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grandi.
- How common is the name Grandi?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,543 people named Grandi, about 1 in 83 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/grandiThe 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, “Grandi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.