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The GRAINGER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,963 7730 0.001 15
United States (1880 census) 69 40391 0 1
Change since 1880 +3894 +32661 +N/A +14
Other Countries
Australia 1,329 1235 0.008 81
United Kingdom 8,214 744 0.018 179
Top States for GRAINGER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 632 1015 0.016 158
North Carolina 466 2356 0.006 58
California 307 8542 0.001 9
Florida 289 6618 0.002 18
New York 166 11212 0.001 9
Top States for GRAINGER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 632 1015 0.016 158
North Carolina 466 2356 0.006 58
Montana 40 3201 0.004 44
Wisconsin 132 6123 0.002 25
New Hampshire 27 5759 0.002 22

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

Classification and Origin of GRAINGER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GRAINGER 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 GRAINGER 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 GRAINGER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 348 8.78
White (Hispanic) 50 1.26
Mixed Race 49 1.24
Native American/Alaskan 25 0.63
Asian/Pacific 10 0.25
White (Caucasian) 3,481 87.84

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

Meaning of GRAINGER in historical publications

GRAINGER. See Granger.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to GRAINGER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRAINGER.

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 GRAINGER

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