What We Know About the Grime Surname

A Grime ancestor may well appear as Grimes in earlier records. Name scholars give the meaning as “Son of Grim (masked one)”.

Spelling and variants

Without the “s” of Grimes, Grime is a simpler written form of the same name. You may also find the name written Grames and Grymes.

613 Americans were listed as Grime in the 2010 census. That puts it among the top 50,000 US surnames. French birth records list 199 children named Grime between 1891 and 2000.

Heraldry and the Grime name

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