Given name & surname
Grove
“hunger + wolf”·“ditch, grave”
Grove is a surname with more than one origin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a French surname, it goes back to a word meaning “hunger + wolf.” As a north German surname, it goes back to a word meaning “ditch, grave.”
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Where it comes from
Grove has more than one origin: as a French surname, it comes from Germanic; as a north German surname, it comes from Low German.
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1883. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Grove through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 124
- 124 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1959. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1917. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 120 as a first name in 2020; 20,662 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Grove’s family of names
In English usage, Grove as a surname has a related form in GRAF. In English usage, Grove as a surname has a related form in Grave. In German usage, Grove as a surname has a related form in Grübele.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Grove
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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