# Grover (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/grover/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈɡɹoʊvɚ/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 27,205 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 27,113 / 92 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From grove + -er.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1884 | 7 | 886 |
| 1885 | 6 | 973 |
| 1892 | 5 | 1,542 |
| 1918 | 5 | 5,131 |
| 1919 | 6 | 4,482 |
| 1920 | 10 | 3,200 |
| 1922 | 7 | 4,194 |
| 1924 | 9 | 3,491 |
| 1925 | 8 | 3,828 |
| 1926 | 7 | 4,039 |
| 1929 | 5 | 4,875 |
| 1931 | 5 | 4,606 |
| 1939 | 6 | 3,956 |
| 1946 | 6 | 4,642 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | 8,304 |
| 2012 | 9 | 8,397 |
| 2013 | 28 | 3,692 |
| 2014 | 15 | 5,826 |
| 2015 | 19 | 4,942 |
| 2016 | 17 | 5,395 |
| 2017 | 27 | 3,914 |
| 2018 | 30 | 3,641 |
| 2019 | 26 | 4,047 |
| 2020 | 19 | 4,917 |
| 2021 | 24 | 4,291 |
| 2022 | 25 | 4,215 |
| 2023 | 28 | 3,927 |
| 2024 | 26 | 4,116 |
| 2025 | 24 | 4,298 |

## People named Grover

- Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 24th President of the United States (1885–1889; 1893–1897)
- Grover Washington Jr., American jazz saxophonist (1943–1999)
- Grover Furr, academic
- Grover Jones, American screenwriter (1893–1940)
- Grover Dale, American actor, dancer and choreographer
- Grover Norquist, American conservative activist and lobbyist
- Grover Krantz, American biological anthropologist (1931–2002)
- Grover Mitchell, American trombonist (1930–2003)
- Gene Autry, American actor and singer (1907–1998)
- James Franciscus, American actor (1934-1991)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.