How common is the surname Grindstaff?

3,754 people in the United States had the surname Grindstaff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 82,244 Americans. It ranked 8,736th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Grindstaff?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Grindstaff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Grindstaff getting more or less common?

Less common. 3,813 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,754 in 2010, down 1.5%.

The surname Grindstaff

A surname, carried by 3,754 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G653

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Grindstaff is more common than 94.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,754 people named Grindstaff in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 82,244 Americans. That is down 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,813.

#8,736

rank among US surnames

3,754

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

-1.5%

change since 2000 (was #8,025)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,728	Werth	3,757	82,179
#8,732	Chien	3,756	82,201
#8,734	Gilkey	3,755	82,223
#8,736	Trevizo	3,754	82,244
#8,741	Bitner	3,753	82,266
#8,743	Seabolt	3,752	82,288

Who is named Grindstaff

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

95% of people named Grindstaff identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Grindstaff

Grindstaff has the Soundex code G653, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G653.

Questions

How common is the surname Grindstaff?: 3,754 people in the United States had the surname Grindstaff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 82,244 Americans. It ranked 8,736th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Grindstaff?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Grindstaff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Grindstaff getting more or less common?: Less common. 3,813 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,754 in 2010, down 1.5%.