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The grover Surname

grover Name Meaning and History

  1. North German: occupational name for a ditch or grave digger, from Middle Low German grove ‘hollow’, ‘grave’.
  2. Americanized form of German and Swiss Gruber.
  3. Southern English: topographic name for someone who lived by a grove, a variant of Grove 1 + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.
  4. Indian (Panjab): Hindu and Sikh name of unknown origin.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of grover Families in the US in 1920
Number of grover families
 146-289
 49-145		 1-48
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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