Grier

13,460 people in the United States were counted with the surname Grier in the 2020 census, making it the 2,619th most common in the country. That is about one person in 22,200.

By the numbers

People: 13,460
Rank: 2,619th
How common: 1 in 22,200
Per 100,000: 4.5

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 55.3%
White, not Hispanic 36.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Grier

Pam Grier (born 1949)American actress
David Alan Grier (born 1956)American actor and comedian
Mike Grier (born 1975)American ice hockey player

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

Surnames like Grier

Also a first name

Grier has been given to 756 American babies as a first name since 1916, peaking in 2007. 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.