The Gries surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,063 people carried this name — #14,474 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 142,900 people counted. That is up 7% from 1,936 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 249 people named Gries.
15 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 19 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
33 people named Gries live in Switzerland.
They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Gries in American newspapers,
1904–1926.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 132,264 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Gries,
with a public archive behind them.
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Johann Diederich Gries 1775–1842 · writer -
Johann Diederich Gries 1776–1842 · writer
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Karl Gries d. 1916 · navy sailor
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Johann Ludwig Gries 1770–1828 · lawyer
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Johann Michael Gries 1772–1827 · judge
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Franz Heinrich Gries 1807–1879 · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Gries.
- Greulich 911 · U.S. census
- Greve 2,857 · U.S. census
- Grey 12,680 · U.S. census
- Griebel 1,371 · U.S. census
- Grieco 3,537 · U.S. census
- Grier 13,868 · U.S. census
- Griesbach 1,003 · U.S. census
- Grieshaber 815 · U.S. census
- Griess 1,135 · U.S. census
- Griesser 309 · U.S. census
- Griffin 198,406 · U.S. census
- Griffith 78,260 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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