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The GRIGG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,659 6684 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 1,228 4592 0.002 25
Change since 1880 +3431 -2092 0 -8
Other Countries
Australia 1,378 1192 0.008 84
United Kingdom 2,055 2891 0.004 45
Top States for GRIGG by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 717 1682 0.009 89
Michigan 344 3488 0.003 35
California 331 8195 0.001 10
Texas 301 6483 0.001 14
Virginia 223 3791 0.003 32
Top States for GRIGG by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Idaho 155 1128 0.012 120
North Carolina 717 1682 0.009 89
Arkansas 211 1709 0.008 79
Wyoming 24 2687 0.005 49
Oklahoma 163 2902 0.005 47

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called GRIGG live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GRIGG represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GRIGG in North Carolina than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GRIGG by picking someone at random in Idaho than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GRIGG

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GRIGG surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the GRIGG surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of GRIGG in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 126 2.7
Mixed Race 59 1.27
White (Hispanic) 51 1.09
Native American/Alaskan 27 0.58
Asian/Pacific 25 0.54
White (Caucasian) 4,371 93.82

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the GRIGG surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of GRIGG in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GRIGG.

Similar names to GRIGG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRIGG.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GRIGG

The following words are slight variants of GRIGG that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.