Grant

Grant is the 196th most common surname in the United States, shared by 139,862 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,137.

By the numbers

People: 139,862
Rank: 196th
How common: 1 in 2,137
Per 100,000: 46.8

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

From Scottish Gaelic Grannd, from Anglo-Norman graunt (“big, large”), from Old French grant, from Latin grandis. The dollar-bill sense is from the portrait of Ulysses S. Grant featured on it.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 52.7%
Black, not Hispanic 37.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Grant

Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885)president of the United States from 1869 to 1877
Cary Grant (1904–1986)British-American actor
Hugh Grant (born 1960)British actor
Lee Grant (born 1925)American actress
Julia Grant (1826–1902)First Lady of the United States from 1869 to 1877
Richard E. Grant (born 1957)British-Swazi actor
Amy Grant (born 1960)American singer-songwriter, musician
Avram Grant (born 1955)Israeli association football manager

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

Surnames like Grant

Also a first name

Grant has been given to 136,669 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1997. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.