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The GRIMM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 21,757 1510 0.008 81
United States (1880 census) 2,687 2270 0.005 54
Change since 1880 +19070 +760 +0.003 +27
Other Countries
Australia 241 6368 0.001 15
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GRIMM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 2,197 553 0.019 194
Pennsylvania 2,118 569 0.017 172
California 1,453 2155 0.004 43
Florida 1,160 1757 0.007 73
Iowa 1,005 248 0.034 343
Top States for GRIMM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 1,005 248 0.034 343
West Virginia 381 723 0.021 211
Ohio 2,197 553 0.019 194
Pennsylvania 2,118 569 0.017 172
Wisconsin 869 598 0.016 162

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

Classification and Origin of GRIMM

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GRIMM 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.

Ethnic distribution of GRIMM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 318 1.46
Black/African American 191 0.88
Mixed Race 189 0.87
Asian/Pacific 122 0.56
Native American/Alaskan 76 0.35
White (Caucasian) 20,861 95.88

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

Meaning of GRIMM in historical publications

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

Similar names to GRIMM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRIMM.

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 GRIMM

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