Grovë
surname · Latin script
Grovë is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English grove, grave, from Old English grāf, grāfa (“grove; copse”), from Proto-West Germanic *graib, *graibō (“branch, group of branches, thicket”), from Proto-Germanic *graibaz, *graibô.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 15K
- CACanada≈1 in 19K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 408 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
21,732 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Grove in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 1 more and Grové in ZA South Africa.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englishgrove(measured from records)
- Old Englishgrāf“grove; copse”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*graib“branch“branch, group of branches, thicket”(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*graibaz“branch“branch, fork”(measured from records)
From Middle English grove, grave, from Old English grāf, grāfa (“grove; copse”), from Proto-West Germanic *graib, *graibō (“branch, group of branches, thicket”), from Proto-Germanic *graibaz, *graibô (“branch, fork”). Related to Old English grǣf, grǣfe (“brushwood; thicket; copse”), Old English grǣfa (“thicket”), dialectal Norwegian greive (“ram with splayed horns”), dialectal Norwegian greivlar (“ramifications of an antler”), dialectal Norwegian grivla (“to branch, branch out”), Old Norse grein (“twig, branch, limb”). More at greave.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Grovë counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 21,732 | 1 in 15K | 22K | Grove | 408 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Grove | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Grove | 217 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Grové | 72 |
| CA Canada | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Grove | 121 |
| DK Denmark | 388 | 1 in 15K | 388 | — | 3 |
| DM Dominica | 28 | 1 in 2.7K | 28 | — | 1 |
21,732 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Grovë mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English grove, grave, from Old English grāf, grāfa (“grove; copse”), from Proto-West Germanic *graib, *graibō (“branch, group of branches, thicket”), from Proto-Germanic *graibaz, *graibô… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Grovë have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Grovë, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grove.
- Where is Grovë most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Grovë is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Grovë?
- In the United States, the national register counted 21,732 people named Grovë in 2010, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/grov%C3%ABThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Grovë”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.