The surname Grazier
An occupational surname, carried by 566 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex G626
Origin
By proprialization from grazier, as an occupational surname for someone who reared or grazed cattle.
Grazier is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 566 people named Grazier in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 545,487 Americans. That is down 23% since 2000, when the Census counted 737.
Who is named Grazier
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
86% of people named Grazier identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 86%
- Black (not Hispanic) 7.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6%
- Two or more races 1.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Grazier has the Soundex code G626, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G626.
Questions
- Where does the surname Grazier come from?
- By proprialization from grazier, as an occupational surname for someone who reared or grazed cattle.
- How common is the surname Grazier?
- 566 people in the United States had the surname Grazier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 545,487 Americans. It ranked 38,948th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Grazier?
- In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Grazier identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Grazier?
- Grazier is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
- Is the surname Grazier getting more or less common?
- Less common. 737 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 566 in 2010, down 23%.