Griggs
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Son of Grigg’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Griggs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 13K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 304K
- DKDenmark1 in 419K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
24,819 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
‘Son of Grigg’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Griggs 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 | 24,819 | 1 in 13K | 25K | Griggs | 17 |
| ES Spain | 32 | 1 in 1.6M | 32 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 18 | 1 in 304K | 18 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 14 | 1 in 419K | 14 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 11 | 1 in 3.5M | 7 | — | — |
24,819 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- John W. Griggsb. 1849USAmerican politician (1849-1927)
- James M. Griggsb. 1861USAmerican politician (1861-1910)
- Robert Fiske Griggsb. 1881USAmerican botanist (1881-1962)
- Loyal Griggsb. 1906USAmerican cinematographer (1906-1978)
- Natasha Griggsb. 1969AUAustralian politician
- Robyn Griggsb. 1973USAmerican actress (1973–2022)
- Andy Griggsb. 1973USAmerican country music artist
- Ray Griggsb. 1974USAmerican film director, producer and screenwriter
- Chad Griggsb. 1978USAmerican mixed martial artist
- Laurel Griggsb. 2006USAmerican child actress (2006–2019)
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 23 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 25K | #1,437 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 24K | #1,454 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 24K | #1,369 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 32 | #61,308 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 32 | #60,133 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #44,659 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 14 | #30,732 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #162,792 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #223,506 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Griggs mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Son of Grigg’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Griggs have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 25 thousand people named Griggs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled griggs.
- Where is Griggs most common?
- Griggs is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Griggs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 24,819 people named Griggs in 2010, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/griggsThe 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, “Griggs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.