Gry
given name · Norwegian Bokmål · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gry is a given name, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Norwegian Bokmål and Danish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name from the vocabulary word gry.
- NONorway1 in 1.3K◐
- DKDenmark1 in 1.8K
- SESweden1 in 9.8K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈8.4K ●
- Sources
- 21 ●
- 1 in 1.3K ◐
across 5 countries
277 records
Official registry-verified
Norway
Meaning & origin●
a female given name from the vocabulary word gry
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 4,069△ | 35 rec. | 1 in 1.3K | 12K | Gry | 21 |
| DK Denmark | 3,264 | — | 1 in 1.8K | 3.3K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 1,046△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 9.8K | 1K | — | 3 |
| AR Argentina | 34 | 63 rec. | — | — | Gry | 17 |
| US United States | 25 | 41 rec. | — | — | Gry | 12 |
| PE Peru | 22 | 20 rec. | — | — | Gry | 12 |
| MX Mexico | 21 | 43 rec. | — | — | Gry | 12 |
| FI Finland | 15 | — | 1 in 371K | 39 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 13 | 13 rec. | — | 6 | Gry | 5 |
| BR Brazil | 13 | 7 rec. | — | — | Gry | 8 |
| PH Philippines | 12 | 2 rec. | — | — | Gry | 6 |
| GT Guatemala | 7 | 7 rec. | — | — | Gry | 1 |
Roughly 4.1K people in Norway bear this name (about 1 in 1.3K). 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●
- Norwegian Bokmål12K41%
- Danish11K37%
- Norwegian3K10%
- English1.1K4%
- French2031%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Norwegian Bokmål | 12,126 | 41% |
| Danish | 10,930 | 37% |
| Norwegian | 2,993 | 10% |
| English | 1,064 | 4% |
| French | 203 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Gry is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Bokmål, to dawn, begin to get light (of a day)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, to dawn (a day)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, dawn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Gry är ett ungt namn, kanske lånat från Norge där det är känt sedan 1897. Det anses där vara bildat till verbet gry ’dagas, börja’. I Sverige har det också associerats med det likalydande substantivet med betydelsen ’tåga, goda egenskaper’. En känd n amnbärare är radiojournalisten Gry Forssell (f. 1973).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, To have a slight bout or fit of ague (chills or shaking due to cold or fever).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1945 | 8 |
| 1946 | 8 |
| 1947 | 9 |
| 1948 | 9 |
| 1949 | 9 |
| 1950 | 10 |
| 1951 | 10 |
| 1952 | 10 |
| 1953 | 16 |
| 1954 | 12 |
| 1955 | 16 |
| 1956 | 30 |
| 1957 | 52 |
| 1958 | 76 |
| 1959 | 71 |
| 1960 | 97 |
| 1961 | 114 |
| 1962 | 121 |
| 1963 | 117 |
| 1964 | 121 |
| 1965 | 150 |
| 1966 | 155 |
| 1967 | 166 |
| 1968 | 239 |
| 1969 | 278 |
| 1970 | 224 |
| 1971 | 254 |
| 1972 | 234 |
| 1973 | 219 |
| 1974 | 200 |
| 1975 | 186 |
| 1976 | 112 |
| 1977 | 100 |
| 1978 | 85 |
| 1979 | 64 |
| 1980 | 62 |
| 1981 | 57 |
| 1982 | 64 |
| 1983 | 80 |
| 1984 | 67 |
| 1985 | 40 |
| 1986 | 34 |
| 1987 | 40 |
| 1988 | 29 |
| 1989 | 29 |
| 1990 | 20 |
| 1991 | 25 |
| 1992 | 20 |
| 1993 | 16 |
| 1994 | 16 |
| 1995 | 20 |
| 1996 | 7 |
| 1997 | 8 |
| 1998 | 12 |
| 1999 | 11 |
| 2000 | 7 |
| 2003 | 5 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 57 years between 1945–2003. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Gry Jannicke Jarlumb. 1962NONorwegian musician, writer, politician and singer
- Gry Østvikb. 1963NONorwegian biathlete (born 1963)
- Gry Johansen-Meilstrupb. 1964DKDanish singer (born 1964)
- Dunja Gry Jensenb. 1965DKDanish screenwriter
- Gry Blekastad Almåsb. 1970NONorwegian journalist (born 1970)
- Gry Molvær Hivjub. 1970NONorwegian journalist and photographer
- Gry Forssellb. 1973SESwedish radio and television host (born 1973)
- Gry Bayb. 1974DKDanish actress
- Gry Bagøienb. 1975DKfemale singer from Denmark
- Gry Tofte Imsb. 1986NONorwegian association football player
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 10 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 215 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Gry?
- We estimate roughly 8.4 thousand people bear Gry (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Gry have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 4.1 thousand people bear Gry in Norway, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled gry.
- Where is Gry most common?
- Gry is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Gry a male or female name?
- Gry 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.
- What does the name Gry mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name from the vocabulary word gry
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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, “Gry”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.