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The CAVANAH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 507 40622 0 2
United States (1880 census) 597 8375 0.001 12
Change since 1880 -90 -32247 +N/A -10
Other Countries
Australia 3 196501 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CAVANAH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 118 3793 0.003 29
Missouri 53 11943 0.001 9
California 48 41470 0.000 1
Georgia 43 12144 0.001 5
Colorado 40 12560 0.001 9
Top States for CAVANAH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 118 3793 0.003 29
Missouri 53 11943 0.001 9
Colorado 40 12560 0.001 9
Georgia 43 12144 0.001 5
Iowa 13 25549 0.000 4

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CAVANAH live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CAVANAH represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CAVANAH in Kentucky than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CAVANAH by picking someone at random in Kentucky than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CAVANAH

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the CAVANAH surname.

Ethnic distribution of CAVANAH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 481 94.87
Mixed Race 12 2.37
White (Hispanic) 11 2.17
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CAVANAH surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

CAVANAH is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of CAVANAH in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of CAVANAH.

Similar names to CAVANAH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CAVANAH.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CAVANAH

The following words are slight variants of CAVANAH that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.