Grover (given name)


Grover is a masculine given name.

Origin

Grover first became popular as a given name in the United States during the 1880s and 1890s, mirroring the popularity of President Grover Cleveland, part of a long-standing American trend of naming babies after presidents. Cleveland's official given name was Stephen; he was named after Stephen Grover, a former minister at the church his parents attended. However, from childhood, Cleveland's friends addressed him by his middle name instead, and so what was originally the surname Grover became a given name. According to Social Security Administration data, the given name Grover increased in frequency by 850 per 100,000 births in the United States between November 1883 and November 1884, and spiked again after he won the 1892 election. It later declined in popularity, and had fallen of the top 1,000 given names for boys in the United States by the 1970s. One notable modern usage is for Grover the Muppet on the television show Sesame Street.

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