Grüning Surname
Approximately 3,030 people bear this surname
Grüning Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 2,868 | 1:28,070 | 3,703 |
| Poland | 50 | 1:760,175 | 61,940 |
| Denmark | 48 | 1:117,598 | 10,848 |
| Estonia | 27 | 1:48,956 | 9,235 |
| Switzerland | 19 | 1:432,259 | 31,718 |
| Austria | 7 | 1:1,216,491 | 80,919 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
The alternate forms: Gruning (423) are calculated separately.
Grüning Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Grüning Come From? nationality or country of origin
Grüning is carried by more people in Germany than any other country/territory. It can be found as a variant: Gruning. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Grüning? popularity and diffusion
Grüning is the 146,334th most frequent last name globally It is held by approximately 1 in 2,405,131 people. The last name is mostly found in Europe, where 100 percent of Grüning live; 96 percent live in Western Europe and 96 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The last name Grüning is most frequently used in Germany, where it is held by 2,868 people, or 1 in 28,070. In Germany it is most common in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 23 percent live, Lower Saxony, where 20 percent live and Thuringia, where 8 percent live. Outside of Germany this surname occurs in 12 countries. It is also common in Poland, where 2 percent live and Denmark, where 2 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gruning | 95 | 423 | / |
| Grünning | 93 | 18 | / |
| Grining | 86 | 258 | / |
| Groning | 86 | 202 | / |
| Grüningová | 82 | 1 | / |
| Groening | 80 | 2,387 | / |
| Gruening | 80 | 343 | / |
| Gronning | 80 | 274 | / |
| Grunning | 80 | 49 | / |
| Greuning | 80 | 25 | / |
| Grauning | 80 | 9 | / |
| Grouning | 80 | 4 | / |
| Grooning | 80 | 2 | / |
| Grunings | 80 | 1 | / |
| Griening | 80 | 0 | / |
| Gruining | 80 | 0 | / |
| Groenning | 75 | 5 | / |
| Grunnings | 75 | 0 | / |
| Groneng | 71 | 26 | / |
| Grinink | 71 | 5 | / |
| Groenink | 67 | 664 | / |
| Grinenk | 57 | 6 | / |
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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 Grüning
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