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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. 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 (the month when Cleveland won his first presidential election), and spiked again after he won the 1892 election. 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.




People






= Government and politics

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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 C. Dillman (1889–1979), Michigan State Highway Commissioner
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. George (1893-1976), American farmer and politician
Grover C. Richman Jr. (1911–1983), attorney-general of New Jersey
Grover J. Rees III (born 1951), American judge and diplomat
Grover Norquist (born 1956), founder of Americans for Tax Reform




= Sports

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Grover Land (1884–1958), American baseball catcher
Grover Fuller (1885–1928), American jockey
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

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Grover Simcox (1867–1966), American naturalist illustrator
Grover Powers (1887–1968), American physician, director of the Yale University Department of Pediatrics
Grover E. Murray (1916–2003), American geologist
Grover C. Stephens (1925–2003), American marine biologist
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

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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. Womack (1885–1956), American businessman in Louisiana
Grover C. Hall (1888–1941), American newspaper editor in Alabama
Grover Loening (1888–1976), American aviation pioneer and aircraft designer
Grover Clark (1891–1938), American journalist in China and Japan
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
Grover Gardner (born 1956), American narrator of audio books




Fictional characters


Grover Dill, a character in the 1983 American movie A Christmas Story
Grover Underwood (Percy Jackson), from the 2000s American book series Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Grover, Sesame Street character
Grover Tully, lord of house Tully in House of the Dragon.




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