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 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.[2] 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 (the month when Cleveland won
his first presidential election), and spiked again after he won the
1892 election.[1] It later declined in popularity, and was last one of the top one thousand given 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
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