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The CLEAVES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,795 15078 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 613 8200 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +1182 -6878 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 94 15090 0.001 6
United Kingdom 337 11784 0.001 7
Top States for CLEAVES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 340 2487 0.006 60
Maine 197 1312 0.015 155
Massachusetts 155 5525 0.002 24
Florida 95 18363 0.001 6
California 94 25024 0.000 3
Top States for CLEAVES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 197 1312 0.015 155
Tennessee 340 2487 0.006 60
Delaware 24 5799 0.003 31
Massachusetts 155 5525 0.002 24
New Hampshire 29 5716 0.002 23

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

Classification and Origin of CLEAVES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CLEAVES surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CLEAVES surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CLEAVES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 718 40
White (Hispanic) 30 1.67
Mixed Race 25 1.39
Asian/Pacific 7 0.39
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.33
White (Caucasian) 1,009 56.21

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

Meaning of CLEAVES in historical publications

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

Similar names to CLEAVES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CLEAVES.

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 CLEAVES

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