Gruda
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Polish: lump, clod
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɡɹudə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gruda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 32K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 228K
- SESweden1 in 276K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
1,186 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)lump, clod
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Gruda is read
(measured from records)Gruda is one spelling over 4 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.
- English43%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gruda in English.
- Polish15%
lump, clod
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gruda in French.
- German9.5%
from Slavic gruda 'stone, stony ground'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Gruda 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 1,186 | 1 in 32K | 613 | — | — |
| US United States | 181 | 1 in 1.8M | 188 | Gruda | 12 |
| SE Sweden | 37 | 1 in 276K | 37 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 24 | 1 in 228K | 24 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 19 | 1 in 442K | 19 | — | 1 |
1,186 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)Gruda 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 Russian, "breast."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In sla-pro, heap, lump
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, f (Vuk, Kosmet) = grudva (Vuk, 18. v., Kosmet), »1° glaeba, 2° (kol.) poljsko zelje (metafora), 3° gruda sira«
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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)- Antonín Grudab. 1844CZCzech Roman Catholic priest
- Konrad Grudab. 1915PLPolish journalist
- Yılmaz Grudab. 1930TRTurkish actor (1930–2023)
- Ayşen Grudab. 1944TRTurkish actor (1944–2019)
- Agnès Grudab. 1957CAPolish-Canadian journalist and fiction writer
- Jarosław Grudab. 1965PLPolish actor
- Marlena Grudab. 1984PLPolish literary scholar
- Sandrine Grudab. 1987FRFrench basketball player (born 1987)
- Suad Grudab. 1991SEFootballer (born 1991)
- Brajan Grudab. 2004DEGerman association football player (born 2004)
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 613 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 613 | #5,142 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 573 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 573 | #5,646 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 188 | #102,164 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 181 | #99,845 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 173 | #97,384 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 37 | #16,084 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 24 | #39,500 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 19 | #37,994 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Gruda mean, and where does it come from?
- lump, clod Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gruda?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɹudə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gruda have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Gruda, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gruda most common?
- Gruda is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 32 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gruda?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,186 people named Gruda in 2026, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gruda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/grudaThe 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, “Gruda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.