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The GROSE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,169 6113 0.002 19
United States (1880 census) 950 5700 0.002 19
Change since 1880 +4219 -413 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 823 1974 0.005 50
United Kingdom 870 5880 0.002 19
Top States for GROSE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 445 644 0.025 246
Ohio 433 3381 0.004 38
Indiana 311 2578 0.005 51
Florida 300 6784 0.002 19
North Carolina 299 3516 0.004 37
Top States for GROSE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 445 644 0.025 246
Indiana 311 2578 0.005 51
Montana 35 4021 0.004 39
Wyoming 19 3662 0.004 38
Ohio 433 3381 0.004 38

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

Classification and Origin of GROSE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: Anglo-Saxon

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 284 5.49
Mixed Race 78 1.51
White (Hispanic) 74 1.43
Native American/Alaskan 29 0.56
Asian/Pacific 21 0.41
White (Caucasian) 4,683 90.6

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

Meaning of GROSE in historical publications

GROSE. See Gross. GROSER. See Grocer. GR OS JEAN. See John. GROSS. GROSSE. Fr. gros. Great, big, as to stature.

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 GROSE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GROSE.

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 GROSE

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