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The GRUBB surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 14,740 2262 0.005 55
United States (1880 census) 4,055 1523 0.008 81
Change since 1880 +10685 -739 -0.003 -26
Other Countries
Australia 650 2494 0.004 40
United Kingdom 2,260 2662 0.005 49
Top States for GRUBB by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 1,612 829 0.014 142
Pennsylvania 1,169 1235 0.010 95
North Carolina 1,024 1215 0.013 127
Virginia 911 1019 0.013 129
Kentucky 846 720 0.021 209
Top States for GRUBB by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 846 720 0.021 209
West Virginia 336 849 0.019 186
Ohio 1,612 829 0.014 142
Tennessee 764 1177 0.013 134
Indiana 787 944 0.013 129

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

Classification and Origin of GRUBB

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 239 1.62
White (Hispanic) 144 0.98
Mixed Race 128 0.87
Asian/Pacific 56 0.38
Native American/Alaskan 52 0.35
White (Caucasian) 14,122 95.81

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

Meaning of GRUBB in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GRUBB.

Similar names to GRUBB

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRUBB.

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 GRUBB

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