# Grant (surname)

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

An English surname transferred from the nickname and a Scottish clan name, from a nickname meaning "large".

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Norman |
| Type | nickname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 142,277 |
| US rank (2010) | 196 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 2,170 people |
| Change since 2000 | +6.1% (134,034 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ɡɹænt/, 1 syllable |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Scottish Gaelic Grannd, from Anglo-Norman graunt (“big, large”), from Old French grant, from Latin grandis. Doublet of grand. The dollar-bill sense is from the portrait of Ulysses S. Grant featured on it.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Grant 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) | 55% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 38% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.8% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.1% |
| Two or more races | 2.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Grant in the United States, the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Australia, Eswatini and Italy.

## People named Grant

- Cary Grant, British-American actor (1904–1986)
- Hugh Grant, British actor
- Lee Grant, American actress
- Richard E. Grant, British actor
- Amy Grant, American singer-songwriter, musician (born 1960)
- Horace Grant, American basketball player (born 1965)
- Jerami Grant, American basketball player (born 1994)
- Beth Grant, American actress
- Brea Grant, American actress
- Madison Grant, American lawyer, eugenicist, and conservationist (1865–1937)
- Robert Edmond Grant, British anatomist and zoologist (1793-1874)
- Duncan Grant, British artist (1885-1978)

and 60 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Garnett, Grande, Granado, Granda, Grandy, Granata, Grand, Granato, Granados, Grantham, Grandberry, Grandstaff.

## 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.