Gronewold Surname

185,329th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 2,287 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Gronewold Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Gronewold Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany1,2671:63,5408,160
United States1,0121:358,16131,966
Switzerland51:1,642,58387,307
Austria11:8,515,435118,036
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Scotland11:3,743,21632,299
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States341:1,477,02079,266

The alternate forms: Grönewold (6) are calculated separately.

Gronewold Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Gronewold Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Gronewold is most common in Germany. It may also appear as: Grönewold. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Gronewold? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 185,329th most commonly occurring family name internationally, held by around 1 in 3,186,509 people. This surname is mostly found in Europe, where 56 percent of Gronewold reside; 56 percent reside in Western Europe and 56 percent reside in Germanic Europe.

The last name Gronewold is most frequently used in Germany, where it is borne by 1,267 people, or 1 in 63,540. In Germany Gronewold is mostly found in: Lower Saxony, where 89 percent reside, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 3 percent reside and Hesse, where 2 percent reside. Apart from Germany it occurs in 5 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 44 percent reside and Switzerland, where 0 percent reside.

Gronewold Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Gronewold has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Gronewold surname grew 2,976 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Gronewold Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Gronewold last name are 22.26% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 69.03% being registered with the party.

Gronewold earn around the same as the average income. In United States they earn 3.92% more than the national average, earning $44,841 USD per year.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Gronewold
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