Grover
Grover is a boy's name that peaked in 1884, when it was the 20th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 4,249th. About 6,300 Grovers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 68.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Grover boys named Grover
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 27,205
- Estimated living today
- 6,300
- Median age today
- 68
- Peak year
- 1884
- Best rank
- 20th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,249th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 92 / 27,113
How old the living Grovers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 27,205 babies given the name since 1880, about 6,300 are alive — 23 in every hundred. Roughly 370 of them are children and 3,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1957 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Grovers
- Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)President of the United States (1885–89; 1893–97)
- Grover Washington Jr. (1943–1999)American jazz saxophonist
- Grover Cleveland Alexander (1887–1950)American baseball player
- Grover Jones (1893–1940)American screenwriter
- Grover Furr (born 1944)academic
People named Grover with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Grover is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Grover is most concentrated in Alabama (4.4×), North Carolina (3.9×), West Virginia (3.9×), Mississippi (3.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1884
The most popular boys’ names the year Grover peaked:
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.