Grim

At the 2020 census, 6,990 Americans bore the surname Grim — 4,892nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 42,800.

By the numbers

People: 6,990
Rank: 4,892nd
How common: 1 in 42,800
Per 100,000: 2.3

Where the name comes from

Probably derived from Old English *Grīm, Old Norse Grímr.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.8%
Black, not Hispanic 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Grim

Fred Grim (born 1965)Dutch footballer and manager
Bobby Grim (1924–1995)American racing driver

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

Surnames like Grim

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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.