How common is the surname Grinstead?

2,545 people in the United States had the surname Grinstead in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 121,315 Americans. It ranked 12,229th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Grinstead getting more or less common?

More common. 2,410 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,545 in 2010, up 5.6%.

The surname Grinstead

An English place surname, carried by 2,545 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G652

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Grinstead is more common than 92.5% of them.

Origin

English origin

Habitational surname from the villages of East and West Grinstead, from Old English grēne (“green”) + stede (“place”).

Grinstead is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

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 2,545 people named Grinstead in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 121,315 Americans. That is up 5.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,410.

#12,229

rank among US surnames

2,545

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+5.6%

change since 2000 (was #11,893)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,221	Berrier	2,547	121,219
#12,227	Greenhalgh	2,546	121,267
#12,229	Check	2,545	121,315
#12,231	Dumond	2,544	121,362
#12,236	Maly	2,543	121,410
#12,238	Doby	2,542	121,458

Who is named Grinstead

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

84% of people named Grinstead identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 84%
Black (not Hispanic) 9.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
Two or more races 1.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

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Surnames that sound like Grinstead

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Grinstead has the Soundex code G652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G652.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Grinstead come from?: Habitational surname from the villages of East and West Grinstead, from Old English grēne (“green”) + stede (“place”).
How common is the surname Grinstead?: 2,545 people in the United States had the surname Grinstead in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 121,315 Americans. It ranked 12,229th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Grinstead?: In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Grinstead identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Grinstead?: Grinstead is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Grinstead getting more or less common?: More common. 2,410 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,545 in 2010, up 5.6%.