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The COVER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,707 8223 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 1,132 4923 0.002 23
Change since 1880 +2575 -3300 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 190 7906 0.001 12
United Kingdom 253 14217 0.001 6
Top States for COVER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 528 3283 0.004 43
Ohio 397 3987 0.003 35
California 337 8930 0.001 10
Florida 274 7910 0.002 17
Maryland 200 3387 0.004 38
Top States for COVER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 98 2661 0.006 57
Pennsylvania 528 3283 0.004 43
Maryland 200 3387 0.004 38
Ohio 397 3987 0.003 35
Wyoming 17 4574 0.003 34

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

Classification and Origin of COVER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 218 5.88
White (Hispanic) 90 2.43
Mixed Race 41 1.11
Asian/Pacific 14 0.38
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.24
White (Caucasian) 3,335 89.96

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

Meaning of COVER in historical publications

COVER. 1. A place where game is preserved. 2. Couirr, a domestic connected with a court kitchen. Halliw.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to COVER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COVER.

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 COVER

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