Grettel
given name · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Grettel is a given name, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country, where it is the 74th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 882◐
- MXMexico1 in 144K
- USUnited States1 in 381K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈6.7K ●
- Sources
- 112 ●
- 1 in 882 ◐
across 3 countries
18K records
Official registry-verified
Costa Rica
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | #74 | 5,780 | 12K rec. | 1 in 882 | 5.8K | Grettel | 45 |
| MX Mexico | — | 2,209 | 1.2K rec. | — | 1 | Grettel | 72 |
| US United States | — | 874 | 2.6K rec. | 1 in 381K | 874 | Grettel | 112 |
| PE Peru | — | 649 | 467 rec. | — | — | Grettel | 29 |
| AR Argentina | — | 342 | 204 rec. | — | 2 | Grettel | 27 |
| CL Chile | — | 268 | 23 rec. | — | 4 | Grettel | 21 |
| PA Panama | #934 | 243 | 222 rec. | — | 1 | Grettel | 13 |
| NI Nicaragua | — | 204 | 198 rec. | — | — | Grettel | 12 |
| PY Paraguay | — | 185 | 151 rec. | — | — | Grettel | 5 |
| EE Estonia | — | 121 | 7 rec. | — | 113 | Grettel | 6 |
| LA Laos | — | 70 | 0 rec. | — | — | Grettel | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 63 | 251 rec. | 1 in 794K | 63 | Grettel | 32 |
Roughly 5.8K people in Costa Rica bear this name (about 1 in 882). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Spanish29K76%
- English7.6K20%
- 2561%
- Portuguese1571%
- Estonian1221%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 29,390 | 76% |
| English | 7,644 | 20% |
| 256 | 1% | |
| Portuguese | 157 | 1% |
| Estonian | 122 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2003 | 7 |
| 2004 | 24 |
| 2005 | 15 |
| 2006 | 18 |
| 2007 | 12 |
| 2008 | 10 |
| 2009 | 9 |
| 2010 | 27 |
| 2011 | 46 |
| 2012 | 32 |
| 2013 | 49 |
| 2014 | 47 |
| 2015 | 44 |
| 2016 | 86 |
| 2017 | 91 |
| 2018 | 94 |
| 2019 | 71 |
| 2020 | 71 |
| 2021 | 50 |
| 2022 | 70 |
| 2023 | 77 |
| 2024 | 78 |
| 2025 | 38 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 27 years between 1993–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Grettel Barbozab. 1956CRCosta Rican sport shooter
- Grettel Labrada Casasb. 1987CUbadminton player
- Grettel Obandob. 2000CRCosta Rican taekwondoin
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●
Attested in 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 5.8K | #122 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 874 | #13,642 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 136 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 113 | #687 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 94 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 91 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 86 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 78 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 77 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 71 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 71 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 70 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 155 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Grettel?
- We estimate roughly 6.7 thousand people bear Grettel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Grettel have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 5.8 thousand people bear Grettel in Costa Rica, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled grettel.
- Where is Grettel most common?
- Grettel is densest in Costa Rica, where the national register counts about 1 in 882 people carrying it.
- How common is Grettel compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Grettel is the 74th most common given name of 37,527 given names recorded there.
- Is Grettel a male or female name?
- Grettel is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Grettel” — the 74th most common given name in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.