Grover
Grover is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 26 births. Its best rank was 20th, in 1884–1885.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 260.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1884802 births
- Best rank
- #20first in 1884
- Since 1880
- 27,089people given the name
The story in the numbers
27,089 boys have been named Grover in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1884, with 802 births — 0.70% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 26 births in 2024, against 802 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1926, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 95 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 10 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Grover | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 3,184 | |
| 1890s | 1,498 | |
| 1900s | 626 | |
| 1910s | 4,112 | |
| 1920s | 5,592 | |
| 1930s | 3,397 | |
| 1940s | 3,140 | |
| 1950s | 2,478 | |
| 1960s | 1,352 | |
| 1970s | 723 | |
| 1980s | 375 | |
| 1990s | 163 | |
| 2000s | 130 | |
| 2010s | 197 | |
| 2020s | 122 |
In 1884, its biggest year
Grover was the 20th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1884 were John, William, James, George and Charles. See all of 1884.
Names that rose and fell with Grover
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Clevepeak 1951
- Benjamanpeak 1977
- Benjimanpeak 1921
- Benjaminepeak 1919
- Greenpeak 1927
- Gustpeak 1923
- Dolphuspeak 1930
- Rollapeak 1916
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.