Grove

20,662 people in the United States were counted with the surname Grove in the 2020 census, making it the 1,701st most common in the country. That is about one person in 14,500.

By the numbers

People: 20,662
Rank: 1,701st
How common: 1 in 14,500
Per 100,000: 6.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

As an English surname, from the noun grove.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.8%
Black, not Hispanic 4.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Grove

Andrew Grove (1936–2016)Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author
William Robert Grove (1811–1896)British judge and chemist
George Grove (1820–1900)English writer on music and director of the Royal College of Music
Lefty Grove (1900–1975)American baseball player

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

Surnames like Grove

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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.