Grover (given name)
Grover is a masculine given name.
Origin
Grover first became popular as a given name in the United States during the presidencies of Grover Cleveland, in part of a long-standing American trend of naming babies after presidents.[1] Cleveland's official first 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.[2] According to Social Security Administration data, the name Grover increased in frequency by 850 per 100,000 births in the United States between November 1883 and November 1884 (the month when Cleveland won his first presidential election), and spiked again after he won the 1892 election.[1] The name later declined in popularity, and was last one of the top one thousand names in the United States in the 1970s. One notable modern usage is for Grover the Muppet on the television show Sesame Street.[3]
People
Government and politics
- Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), 22nd and 24th President of the United States
- Grover M. Moscowitz (1886–1947), judge on the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- Grover Ramstack (1886–1948), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
- Grover Whalen (1886–1962), commissioner of the New York City Police
- Grover C. Winn (1886–1943), speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives
- Grover L. Broadfoot (1892–1962), chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Grover A. Giles (1892–1974), attorney-general of Utah
- Grover Sellers (1892–1980), attorney-general of Texas
- Grover C. Richman Jr. (1911–1983), attorney-general of New Jersey
- Grover Norquist (born 1956), founder of Americans for Tax Reform
- Grover Rees III (born 1956), US Ambassador to East Timor
Sports
- Grover Land (1884–1958), American baseball catcher
- Grover Lowdermilk (1885–1968), American baseball pitcher
- Grover Cleveland Alexander (1887–1950), American baseball pitcher
- Grover Baichley (1888–1956), American baseball pitcher
- Grover Gilmore (baseball) (1888–1919), American baseball right fielder
- Grover Hartley (1888–1964), American baseball catcher
- Grover Washabaugh (1892–1973), American basketball coach
- Grover Malone (1895–1950), American National Football League player
- Grover Seitz (1907–1957), American Minor League Baseball player
- Grover Resinger (1916–1986), American baseball coach
- Grover Froese (1916–1982), American baseball umpire
- Grover Klemmer (1921–2015), American sprinter and National Football League referee
- Grover Nutt (1921–2012), American college football coach
- Bud Delp (Grover Greer Delp; 1932–2006), American racehorse trainer
- Grover Powell (1940–1985), American baseball pitcher
- Raz Reid (Grover Reid; born 1950), American tennis player
- Grover Covington (born 1956), Canadian Football League defensive end
- Grover Wiley (born 1974), American middleweight boxer
- Grover Gibson (born 1978), American association football midfielder in Germany's 2. Bundesliga
- Grover Harmon (born 1989), Cook Islands association football midfielder
- Grover Stewart (born 1993), American National Football League nose tackle
Scholars
- Grover Simcox (1867–1966), naturalist illustrator
- Grover E. Murray (1916–2003), American geologist
- Grover Krantz (1931–2002), American anthropologist and cryptozoologist
- Grover Hutchins (1933–2010), American pathologist
- Grover Furr (born 1944), American professor of medieval English literature
- Grover C. Gilmore (born 1950), American psychologist
- Grover Whitehurst, American education researcher
Other
- Grover S. Wormer (1821–1904), Union Army general during the US Civil War
- G. C. Brewer (Grover Cleveland Brewer; 1884–1956), American Christian leader
- Grover C. Hall (1888–1941), American newspaper editor
- Grover Loening (1888–1976), American aviation pioneer and aircraft designer
- Grover Clinton Tyler (1892–1966), American aeronautical pioneer and US Postal Service airmail pilot
- Grover Cleveland Bergdoll (1893–1966), American heir and World War I draft dodger
- Grover Jones (1893–1940), American actor
- Grover C. Nash (1911–1970), American pilot, first black man to fly for the US Postal Service
- Grover Mitchell (1930–2003), American jazz trombonist
- Grover Lewis (1934–1995), American journalist, pioneer of New Journalism
- Grover Dale (born 1935), American actor
- Grover Washington, Jr. (1943–1999), American jazz saxophonist
- Grover Jackson (born 1949), American luthier
Fictional characters
- Grover Underwood (Percy Jackson), from the 2000s American book series Percy Jackson and the Olympians
- Grover, Sesame Street character
References
- Blatt, Ben (17 July 2014). "Meet Rutherford: The surprisingly durable American habit of naming kids after sitting presidents". Slate. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- Stoddard, William (1888). Grover Cleveland: (Abridged, Annotated). New York: Stokes. p. 9.
- Lansky, Bruce (2011). 5-Star Baby Name Advisor. Simon & Schuster. p. 591. ISBN 9781451620238.
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