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The GROVER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 16,551 2010 0.006 61
United States (1880 census) 6,035 1016 0.012 121
Change since 1880 +10516 -994 -0.006 -60
Other Countries
Australia 594 2728 0.004 36
United Kingdom 2,264 2660 0.005 49
Top States for GROVER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,519 2054 0.004 45
New York 1,102 1614 0.006 58
Maine 857 245 0.067 672
Florida 810 2482 0.005 51
Michigan 694 1568 0.007 70
Top States for GROVER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 857 245 0.067 672
Idaho 415 339 0.032 321
Vermont 141 690 0.023 232
Utah 478 565 0.021 214
New Hampshire 236 788 0.019 191

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

Classification and Origin of GROVER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 670 4.05
Mixed Race 262 1.58
White (Hispanic) 243 1.47
Native American/Alaskan 149 0.9
White (Caucasian) 14,217 85.9
Black/African American 1,010 6.1

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

Meaning of GROVER in historical publications

GROVER. See Grove.

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 GROVER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GROVER.

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 GROVER

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