Grover

Where Grover comes from

From grove + -er.
— Wiktionary's entry for Grover
  • 2 syllables
Grover through the years
  1. 1837
    Grover Cleveland born
    22nd & 24th President of the United States (1885–1889; 1893–1897)
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #403 among boys, with 18 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1884
    Around this time: Grover Cleveland elected president
    Event, 1884 · Source
    “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.”
  4. 1884
    Peak, #20
    802 babies named Grover, the most in any year.
  5. 1887
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #59.
  6. 1943
    Grover Washington Jr. born
    American jazz saxophonist
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, popular in the USA in the 1880s and 1890s when Grover Cleveland was President.
Namesakes
  • Grover Cleveland · 22nd & 24th President of the United States (1885–1889; 1893–1897), 1837–1908
  • Grover Washington Jr. · American jazz saxophonist, 1943–1999
  • Grover Jones · American screenwriter, 1893–1940
  • Grover Furr · academic, born 1944
  • Grover Norquist · American conservative activist and lobbyist, born 1956

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record. Events show what happened around then, not why parents chose the name. Quotes are from the linked Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).