The surname Grimsley
A surname, carried by 5,848 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex G652
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 5,848 people named Grimsley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 52,795 Americans. That is up 3.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,678.
#5,901
rank among US surnames
5,848
people in 2010
2.0
per 100,000 Americans
+3%
change since 2000 (was #5,603)
Who is named Grimsley
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
77% of people named Grimsley identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 77%
- Black (not Hispanic) 18%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
- Two or more races 1.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Grimsley has the Soundex code G652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G652.
Questions
- How common is the surname Grimsley?
- 5,848 people in the United States had the surname Grimsley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 52,795 Americans. It ranked 5,901st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Grimsley?
- In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Grimsley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Grimsley getting more or less common?
- More common. 5,678 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,848 in 2010, up 3.0%.