Gruwé Surname

4,908,606th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 16 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Belgium
Highest density in:
Belgium

Gruwé Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Gruwé Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Belgium121:958,05473,966
France21:33,211,361423,184
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297

The alternate forms: Gruwe (121), Gruwè (1) & Grüwe (1) are calculated separately.

Gruwé Last Name Facts

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

The surname Gruwé is held by more people in Belgium than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms: Gruwe, Gruwè or Grüwe. For other potential spellings of Gruwé click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Gruwé? popularity and diffusion

Gruwé is the 4,908,606th most numerous surname on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 455,471,620 people. The surname Gruwé occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of Gruwé live; 94 percent live in Western Europe and 56 percent live in Germanic Europe.

The last name is most numerous in Belgium, where it is borne by 12 people, or 1 in 958,054. In Belgium Gruwé is most common in: Flemish Region, where 75 percent are found and Brussels Capital Region, where 25 percent are found. Excluding Belgium this surname exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in France, where 13 percent are found and Spain, where 6 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Gruwe93121/
Gruwè931/
Grüwe871/
Gruwa806/
Gruway7345/
Gruwet7334/
Gruwes7317/
Grouwe7313/
Grauwe735/
Grouwa734/
Gruwey731/
Gruwee731/
Grauwet6787/
Grouwet6711/
Greuwer674/

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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
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • 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 Gruwé
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