Grossman

16,269 people in the United States were counted with the surname Grossman in the 2020 census, making it the 2,172nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 18,400.

By the numbers

People: 16,269
Rank: 2,172nd
How common: 1 in 18,400
Per 100,000: 5.4

Where the name comes from

Origin German

From German Grossmann, from groß (“great, large, tall”) + Mann (“man; male adult”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Grossman

Vasily Grossman (1905–1964)Russian Soviet writer and journalist
David Grossman (born 1954)Israeli author
Leslie Grossman (born 1971)American actress
Naomi Grossman (born 1975)American actress, writer, and producer
Lev Grossman (born 1969)American novelist, journalist
Henryk Grossman (1881–1950)Polish-German academic and revolutionary
Edith Grossman (1936–2023)American translator
Rex Grossman (born 1980)American football player

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

Surnames like Grossman

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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.