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    The surname Griswold

    A French place surname, carried by 10,417 people in the United States.

    Pronounced /ˈɡrɪzwɔːld/ 2 syllables Soundex G624

    Griswold: #3,427 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Griswold #3,427, 10,417 people Griswold: #3,427 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Griswold #3,427, 10,417 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Griswold is more common than 97.9% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    An English habitational surname from Middle English from gris (“grey (from French, i.e., the language of the Royal Court after 1066”) + wold (“forest, e.g. “Yorkshire Wolds”).

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

    One of 791 French surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 10,417 people named Griswold in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 29,639 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 10,396.

    #3,427
    rank among US surnames
    10,417
    people in 2010
    3.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.2%
    change since 2000 (was #3,167)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,418Sales10,43929,576
    #3,419Fogle10,43429,590
    #3,420Paez10,43329,593
    #3,421Brinkman10,43229,596
    #3,423Conde10,43029,602
    #3,424Monson10,42529,616
    #3,425Vieira10,42029,630

    Who is named Griswold

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

    91% of people named Griswold identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Griswood
    • Griswald

    Griswold has the Soundex code G624, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G624.

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Griswold come from?
    Griswold is French in origin.
    How common is the surname Griswold?
    10,417 people in the United States had the surname Griswold in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 29,639 Americans. It ranked 3,427th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Griswold?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Griswold identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    How do you pronounce Griswold?
    Griswold is /ˈɡrɪzwɔːld/, 2 syllables.
    What type of surname is Griswold?
    Griswold is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Griswold getting more or less common?
    More common. 10,396 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 10,417 in 2010, up 0.2%.
    What are other spellings of Griswold?
    Griswood and Griswald.