How common is the surname Gruver?

3,148 people in the United States had the surname Gruver in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 98,077 Americans. It ranked 10,237th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Gruver?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Gruver identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Gruver getting more or less common?

More common. 3,014 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,148 in 2010, up 4.4%.

The surname Gruver

A surname, carried by 3,148 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G616

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gruver is more common than 93.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,148 people named Gruver in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 98,077 Americans. That is up 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,014.

#10,237

rank among US surnames

3,148

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+4.4%

change since 2000 (was #9,878)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,232	Lukens	3,151	97,983
#10,233	Edington	3,150	98,014
#10,234	Livermore	3,149	98,046
#10,237	Gruver	3,148	98,077
#10,243	Tillett	3,147	98,108
#10,245	Killeen	3,146	98,139

Who is named Gruver

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

94% of people named Gruver identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
Two or more races 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Gruver

Gruver has the Soundex code G616, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G616.

Questions

How common is the surname Gruver?: 3,148 people in the United States had the surname Gruver in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 98,077 Americans. It ranked 10,237th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gruver?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Gruver identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Gruver getting more or less common?: More common. 3,014 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,148 in 2010, up 4.4%.