Greaves

At the 2020 census, 5,009 Americans bore the surname Greaves — 6,512th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 59,700.

By the numbers

People: 5,009
Rank: 6,512th
How common: 1 in 59,700
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Topographic surname for someone who lived near a brushwood or thicket, from Old English grǣfe (“brushwood, thicket”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 57.4%
Black, not Hispanic 32.0%
Hispanic or Latino 5.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Greaves

Jimmy Greaves (1940–2021)English professional football player
John Greaves (1602–1652)English mathematician, astronomer and antiquarian
Jacob Greaves (born 2000)English association football player
John Greaves (born 1950)British musician and composer

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

Surnames like Greaves

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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.