Groom
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Servant’; from Middle English grome ‘boy, servant’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɡɹuːm/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Groom is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 25K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 39Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 338 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
5,114 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)‘Servant’; from Middle English grome ‘boy, servant’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Groom 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 | 5,114 | 1 in 65K | 5.2K | Groom | 338 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | Groom | 195 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Groom | 122 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Groom | 35 |
| CA Canada | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Groom | 99 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Groom | 35 |
| SG Singapore | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Groom | 8 |
5,114 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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Groom is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Middle English grom(e) ‘serving-man, manservant’; first attested Richard Grom c1100 MedEA (Nf).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, for a servant or a shepherd, from ME grdm(e) boy, servant (of uncertain etymology), which in some places was spe¬ cialized to mean ‘shepherd’. Var.: Groome. Vars.: Grijb(n)er, Griibler. Ger. only: Griebler; Grub(e), Griib. Jewish only: Grubner.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
occupational name for a servant or a shepherd, from Middle English grdm(e) ‘boy’, ‘servant’ (of uncertain origin), which in some places was specialized to mean ‘shepherd’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A man who is about to marry.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, groom (in a stable)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- William Henry Groomb. 1833AUAustralian politician
- Littleton Groomb. 1867AUAustralian politician (1867-1936)
- Bob Groomb. 1884USAmerican baseball player
- Sam Groomb. 1938USAmerican actor
- Winston Groomb. 1943USAmerican writer (1943-2020)
- Ray Groomb. 1944AUAustralian politician; 39th Premier of Tasmania
- Terry Groomb. 1944AUSouth Australian politician (1944-2021)
- Angus Groomb. 1992GBBritish rower
- Shea Groomb. 1993USAmerican soccer player
- Bill GroomUSAmerican scenographer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.2K | #6,088 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.1K | #6,623 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.9K | #6,609 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Groom mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Servant’; from Middle English grome ‘boy, servant’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Groom?
- In the etymology graph, BrideGroom is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Groom?
- In English /ɡɹuːm/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Groom have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.1 thousand people named Groom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled groom.
- How common is the name Groom?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,114 people named Groom in 2010, about 1 in 65 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/groomThe 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, “Groom”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.