The history of your name

The GROOT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 573 36761 0 2
United States (1880 census) 153 23437 0 3
Change since 1880 +420 -13324 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 76 18160 0 5
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GROOT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 86 26234 0.000 3
Michigan 80 15663 0.001 8
Illinois 43 30159 0.000 3
Florida 42 36109 0.000 3
Ohio 36 32363 0.000 3
Top States for GROOT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 80 15663 0.001 8
Indiana 28 20985 0.000 5
Utah 10 16451 0.000 4
Iowa 13 27296 0.000 4
Illinois 43 30159 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of GROOT

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the GROOT surname.

Ethnic distribution of GROOT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 545 95.11
White (Hispanic) 14 2.44
Asian/Pacific 6 1.05
Mixed Race 6 1.05
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

GROOT is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of GROOT in historical publications

GROOT. Originally De Groot, (that is the great or big) from Holland. The real surname of the illustrious Grotius. The connection between the Dutch and English Groots is sufficiently shewn in one of Dr. Johnson's letters to his friend. Dr. Vyse, of Lambeth. " I doubt not but you will readily forgive me for taking the liberty of request'm<y your assistance in recommending an old frimd to his Grace the Archbishop, as Governor of the Charter-House. His name is De Groot ; he was born in Gloucester ; I have known him many years. He has all the common claims to charity, being old, poor, and infirm in a great degree. He has likewise another claim, to which no scholar can refuse attention ; he is by several descents the nephew of Hugo Grotius— of him from whom perhaps every man of learning has learnt something. Let it not be said m any lettered country that a nephev of Grotius asked a charity and was refused. I am, reverend sir, your most humble servant, S-Ui. JOHKSON. July 9, 1777."

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 GROOT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GROOT.

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 GROOT

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