How common is the surname Grow?

5,246 people in the United States had the surname Grow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 58,854 Americans. It ranked 6,474th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Grow?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Grow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Grow getting more or less common?

More common. 5,211 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,246 in 2010, up 0.7%.

The surname Grow

A surname, carried by 5,246 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex G600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Grow is more common than 96% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,246 people named Grow in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 58,854 Americans. That is up 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,211.

#6,474

rank among US surnames

5,246

people in 2010

1.8

per 100,000 Americans

+0.7%

change since 2000 (was #6,070)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,468	Vining	5,253	58,775
#6,469	Escoto	5,249	58,820
#6,470	Aronson	5,247	58,842
#6,474	Grow	5,246	58,854
#6,476	Uhl	5,244	58,876

Who is named Grow

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

94% of people named Grow identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Grow

Grow has the Soundex code G600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G600.

Questions

How common is the surname Grow?: 5,246 people in the United States had the surname Grow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 58,854 Americans. It ranked 6,474th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Grow?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Grow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Grow getting more or less common?: More common. 5,211 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,246 in 2010, up 0.7%.