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    The surname Grooms

    A surname, carried by 11,045 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex G652

    Grooms: #3,267 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Grooms #3,267, 11,045 people Grooms: #3,267 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Grooms #3,267, 11,045 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Grooms is more common than 98% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 11,045 people named Grooms in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 27,953 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 10,640.

    #3,267
    rank among US surnames
    11,045
    people in 2010
    3.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.8%
    change since 2000 (was #3,118)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,258Ragan11,08127,863
    #3,259Bostic11,07927,868
    #3,260Krebs11,06727,898
    #3,261Urena11,06627,900
    #3,263Peek11,06227,910
    #3,264Seeley11,06127,913
    #3,265Strand11,05127,938

    Who is named Grooms

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

    78% of people named Grooms identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 78%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 17%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Grooms

    Grooms 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 Grooms?
    11,045 people in the United States had the surname Grooms in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 27,953 Americans. It ranked 3,267th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Grooms?
    In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Grooms identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Grooms getting more or less common?
    More common. 10,640 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 11,045 in 2010, up 3.8%.