Grover

A unisex name of Old English origin, meaning grove dweller, one from the grove.

Babies a year
27
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Grover by the numbers

Grover was given to 27 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 802 babies in 1884, so it is a 1880s name that has since fallen a long way.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Grover. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

Other names that mean a forest or wood

Like Grover, each of these has a forest or wood in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.

  • Sawyerone who saws wood; woodcutter5,531 in the US (2017)
  • Silasof the forest, woods3,309 in the US (2017)
  • Kimberlyfrom the wood of the royal forest1,823 in the US (2017)
  • Lennoxelm grove or from the place of the elms1,200 in the US (2017)
  • Emberglowing piece of coal or wood192 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Henleyhigh wood or clearing670 in the US (2017)

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