Boy · English
Grover
Say it: GROH-ver
Meaning
From an English surname for someone living by a grove.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Peaked during Cleveland's presidencies in the 1880s and 1890s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1880s
In the United States
- 27,077 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1884, about 1 in 143 boys
- 19 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Grover Cleveland, US president
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Where this comes from
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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