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    The surname Grove

    A place surname, carried by 21,732 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex G610

    Grove: #1,657 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#10,001Dubon Grove #1,657, 21,732 people Grove: #1,657 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Grove #1,657, 21,732 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Grove is more common than 99% of them.

    Origin

    * 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.

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

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 21,732 people named Grove in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 14,207 Americans. That is down 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 21,969.

    #1,657
    rank among US surnames
    21,732
    people in 2010
    7.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1.1%
    change since 2000 (was #1,487)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #1,648Jarrett21,82114,149
    #1,649Bolden21,81914,150
    #1,650Wolff21,81514,153
    #1,651Thorpe21,81314,154
    #1,652Hassan21,80114,162
    #1,653Hadley21,77114,182
    #1,654Healy21,75114,195

    Who is named Grove

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

    91% of people named Grove identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

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

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Groves

    3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Lefty Grove
      American baseball player (1900–1975)
    • Kendall Grove
      American martial artist, born 1982
    • William Bywater Grove
      Botanist and mycologist (1848-1938)

    Notable Groves come mostly from the United States (2) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Grove

    Grove has the Soundex code G610, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G610.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Grove come from?
    * 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…
    How common is the surname Grove?
    21,732 people in the United States had the surname Grove in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,207 Americans. It ranked 1,657th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Grove?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Grove identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Grove?
    Lefty Grove, American baseball player (1900–1975), followed by Kendall Grove.
    Where is the surname Grove most common?
    Wikidata records people named Grove in the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
    What type of surname is Grove?
    Grove is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Grove getting more or less common?
    Less common. 21,969 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 21,732 in 2010, down 1.1%.