# Grove (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/grove/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a grove.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 21,732 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,657 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 14,207 people |
| Change since 2000 | -1.1% (21,969 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from the noun grove. * As a French surname, Americanized from Le Groux, Le Greux, reduced from Gréoul, of Germanic origin, from *grēduz (“hunger”) + *wulfaz (“wolf”). * As a north German surname, from the Low German noun Graf (“ditch, grave”) (see grave). Also a Dutch and Low German form of Grub. * As a German surname, variant of Graf.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Grove in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 91% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 4.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Grove in the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

## People named Grove

- Lefty Grove, American baseball player (1900–1975)
- Kendall Grove, American martial artist
- William Bywater Grove, botanist and mycologist (1848-1938)

## Similar surnames

Garvey, Greve, Grave, Grob, Grobe, Grubb, Graf, Graff, Garibay, Groff, Grube, Griffey.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.