The GRIMES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	49,245	626	0.018	182
United States (1880 census)	13,608	426	0.027	272
Change since 1880	+35637	-200	-0.009	-90
Other Countries
Australia	764	2123	0.005	47
United Kingdom	5,847	1075	0.013	127

Top States for GRIMES by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	4,813	541	0.023	231
Florida	3,274	612	0.020	205
California	3,025	1126	0.009	89
Ohio	2,526	500	0.022	222
Georgia	2,242	482	0.027	274
Top States for GRIMES by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	2,155	326	0.048	485
Kentucky	1,579	388	0.039	391
Delaware	241	549	0.031	308
Maryland	1,623	338	0.031	306
Arkansas	814	426	0.030	304

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of GRIMES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	793	1.61
Mixed Race	788	1.6
Native American/Alaskan	276	0.56
Asian/Pacific	148	0.3
White (Caucasian)	38,125	77.42
Black/African American	9,115	18.51

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

Similar names to GRIMES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRIMES.

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.