Grove
Grove was last recorded in 1959, when 5 babies were given it; 124 Americans have been recorded with it between 1883 and 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Grove by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Grove?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #4,222, in 1959; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1917, the peak
Grove peaked in 1917, when 10 boys were given it, #2,625 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 5 | #4,222 | 2.3 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,026 | 2.5 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,183 | 3.7 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,124 | 4.0 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,195 | 3.8 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,717 | 3.1 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,354 | 4.3 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,713 | 4.1 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,259 | 5.4 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,127 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1928 | 6 | #3,888 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,429 | 4.4 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,238 | 7.2 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,046 | 8.2 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,666 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,328 | 7.5 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,625 | 10.8 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,159 | 5.6 |
| 1883 | 5 | #955 | 47.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Grove a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Grove has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Grove: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Grove, and how old are they?
An estimated 26 Americans named Grove and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 120 people named Grove (9 women and girls, 111 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 36 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Grove rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
More about Grove and names like it
- The most given names of the 1910sGrove peaked in 1917.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Grove.
- Names starting with GMost given first.