# Grieb (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/grieb/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,048 |
| US rank (2010) | 24,049 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 294,605 people |
| Change since 2000 | -2.9% (1,079 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From the Alemannic German surname, related to the noun Griebe (“crackling, pork fat”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Grieb in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 96% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.2% |
| Two or more races | 1.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Grieb in the United States.

## People named Grieb

- John Grieb, American gymnast and decathlete (1879–1939)

## Similar surnames

Grube, Grob, Grebe, Greb, Grobe, Griffey, Grieve, Greif, Grove, Grubb, Graf, Graff.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.