Meaning and history
From an English surname derived from Old English graf, meaning “grove of trees,” Grover was popularized in the United States in the late 19th century by President Grover Cleveland (1837–1908) and is now also associated with the Muppet character from Sesame Street.
20062006: 15 births, rank #5,525
2007: 13 births, rank #6,262
2008: 15 births, rank #5,767
2009: 10 births, rank #7,692
2010: 17 births, rank #5,251
20112011: 9 births, rank #8,079
2012: 9 births, rank #8,158
2013: 28 births, rank #3,661
2014: 15 births, rank #5,733
2015: 19 births, rank #4,890
20162016: 17 births, rank #5,318
2017: 27 births, rank #3,889
2018: 30 births, rank #3,607
2019: 26 births, rank #4,003
2020: 19 births, rank #4,855
20212021: 24 births, rank #4,247
2022: 25 births, rank #4,184
2023: 28 births, rank #3,883
2024: 26 births, rank #4,072
20252025: 24 births, rank #4,249
Grover moved from #869 to #949 for boys between 1973 and 1974. Its highest annual birth count came in 1884, with 802 births.