How common is the surname Hargrave?

7,037 people in the United States had the surname Hargrave in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 43,875 Americans. It ranked 4,989th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Hargrave?

Lawrence Hargrave, Australian engineer and inventor (1850–1915), followed by Sam Hargrave.

Where is the surname Hargrave most common?

Wikidata records people named Hargrave in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Is the surname Hargrave getting more or less common?

More common. 6,930 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,037 in 2010, up 1.5%.

The surname Hargrave

An English place surname, carried by 7,037 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H626

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hargrave is more common than 96.9% of them.

Origin

English origin

Habitational surname, from Old English hār (“grey”) or hara (“hare”) + graf (“grove”) or grǣfe (“thicket”).

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

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 7,037 people named Hargrave in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 43,875 Americans. That is up 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,930.

#4,989

rank among US surnames

7,037

people in 2010

2.4

per 100,000 Americans

+1.5%

change since 2000 (was #4,677)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,980	Damian	7,048	43,806
#4,981	Spurgeon	7,047	43,812
#4,983	Brumley	7,046	43,819
#4,984	Brownell	7,045	43,825
#4,985	McKelvey	7,043	43,837
#4,986	Palm	7,041	43,850
#4,987	Roderick	7,039	43,862

Who is named Hargrave

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

77% of people named Hargrave identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 77%
Black (not Hispanic) 18%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Two or more races 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Hargraves

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Lawrence Hargrave
Australian engineer and inventor (1850–1915)
Sam Hargrave
American stunt performer, actor and director, born 1982
Javon Hargrave
American football player (born 1993)

Notable Hargraves come mostly from the United States (2) and the United Kingdom (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Hardgrave

Surnames that sound like Hargrave

Hargrave has the Soundex code H626, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H626.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Hargrave come from?: Habitational surname, from Old English hār (“grey”) or hara (“hare”) + graf (“grove”) or grǣfe (“thicket”).
How common is the surname Hargrave?: 7,037 people in the United States had the surname Hargrave in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 43,875 Americans. It ranked 4,989th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hargrave?: In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Hargrave identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Hargrave?: Lawrence Hargrave, Australian engineer and inventor (1850–1915), followed by Sam Hargrave.
Where is the surname Hargrave most common?: Wikidata records people named Hargrave in the United States and the United Kingdom.
What type of surname is Hargrave?: Hargrave is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Hargrave getting more or less common?: More common. 6,930 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,037 in 2010, up 1.5%.
What are other spellings of Hargrave?: Hardgrave.