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]

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References

  1. Blatt, Ben (17 July 2014). "Meet Rutherford: The surprisingly durable American habit of naming kids after sitting presidents". Slate. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  2. Stoddard, William (1888). Grover Cleveland: (Abridged, Annotated). New York: Stokes. p. 9.
  3. Lansky, Bruce (2011). 5-Star Baby Name Advisor. Simon & Schuster. p. 591. ISBN 9781451620238.
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