Grissom

10,837 people in the United States were counted with the surname Grissom in the 2020 census, making it the 3,252nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 27,600.

By the numbers

People: 10,837
Rank: 3,252nd
How common: 1 in 27,600
Per 100,000: 3.6

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.1%
Black, not Hispanic 16.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Grissom

Gus Grissom (1926–1967)American astronaut

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

Surnames like Grissom

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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.