The COLVIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	21,908	1495	0.008	81
United States (1880 census)	4,904	1263	0.01	98
Change since 1880	+17004	-232	-0.002	-17
Other Countries
Australia	568	2856	0.003	35
United Kingdom	1,538	3664	0.003	33

Top States for COLVIN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,629	1552	0.008	78
California	1,508	2144	0.004	45
Ohio	1,457	911	0.013	128
Alabama	1,240	626	0.028	279
Florida	1,199	1755	0.008	75
Top States for COLVIN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	1,240	626	0.028	279
Louisiana	947	696	0.021	212
Kentucky	687	882	0.017	170
Vermont	90	1228	0.015	148
Montana	127	847	0.014	141

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of COLVIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the COLVIN 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 COLVIN 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 COLVIN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	438	2
Mixed Race	361	1.65
Native American/Alaskan	118	0.54
Asian/Pacific	103	0.47
White (Caucasian)	16,996	77.58
Black/African American	3,889	17.75

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

Similar names to COLVIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COLVIN.

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.