Grainger

3,876 people in the United States were counted with the surname Grainger in the 2020 census, making it the 8,187th most common in the country. That is about one person in 77,100.

By the numbers

People: 3,876
Rank: 8,187th
How common: 1 in 77,100
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Grainger described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 83.2%
Black, not Hispanic 9.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Grainger

Percy Grainger (1882–1961)Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist
Holliday Grainger (born 1988)English actress
Katherine Grainger (born 1975)British rower
Susanne Grainger (born 1990)Canadian rower

People named Grainger with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Grainger

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.