Grimm

21,420 people in the United States were counted with the surname Grimm in the 2020 census, making it the 1,626th most common in the country. That is about one person in 14,000.

By the numbers

People: 21,420
Rank: 1,626th
How common: 1 in 14,000
Per 100,000: 7.2

Where the name comes from

Origin German

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Grimm

Jacob Grimm (1785–1863)German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist
Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859)German author, philologist, collector of fairy tales and legends
Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (1723–1807)German dramatist and playwright
Alexander Grimm (born 1986)Olympic canoeist
Herman Grimm (1828–1901)German art historian and writer
Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790–1863)German artist
Hans Grimm (1875–1959)German politician
Robert Grimm (1881–1958)Swiss politician

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

Surnames like Grimm

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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.