How common is the surname Grieve?

2,118 people in the United States had the surname Grieve in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 145,772 Americans. It ranked 14,178th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Grieve?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Grieve identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Grieve getting more or less common?

More common. 2,110 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,118 in 2010, up 0.4%.

The surname Grieve

An English occupational surname, carried by 2,118 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex G610

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Grieve is more common than 91.3% of them.

Origin

English origin

English surname, from Middle English greyve (“steward, bailiff, principal officer”). Compare Reeve, Sheriff. Also sometimes a variant of Grave.

Grieve is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,118 people named Grieve in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 145,772 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,110.

#14,178

rank among US surnames

2,118

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+0.4%

change since 2000 (was #13,266)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#14,172	Stalcup	2,119	145,703
#14,178	Dunfee	2,118	145,772
#14,184	Pusateri	2,117	145,841

Who is named Grieve

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Grieve identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
Two or more races 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Grieve

Grieve has the Soundex code G610, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G610.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Grieve come from?: English surname, from Middle English greyve (“steward, bailiff, principal officer”). Compare Reeve, Sheriff. Also sometimes a variant of Grave.
How common is the surname Grieve?: 2,118 people in the United States had the surname Grieve in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 145,772 Americans. It ranked 14,178th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Grieve?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Grieve identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Grieve?: Grieve is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Grieve getting more or less common?: More common. 2,110 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,118 in 2010, up 0.4%.