# Grainger (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/grainger/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname originating as an occupation, a variant of Granger.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 3,972 |
| US rank (2010) | 8,337 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 77,730 people |
| Change since 2000 | +0.2% (3,963 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Grainger in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 85% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 9.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.2% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.9% |
| Two or more races | 1.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Grainger in the United States.

## People named Grainger

- Percy Grainger, Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist (1882–1961)

## Similar surnames

Granger, Grange, Gehringer, Gering, Goring, Grimes, Grooms, Garnica, Grimsley, Gehring, Gurung, Grams.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.