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The GALVAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 40,046 788 0.015 148
United States (1880 census) 258 15997 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +39788 +15209 +0.014 +143
Other Countries
Australia 49 25757 0 3
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GALVAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 15,523 189 0.074 744
California 11,774 354 0.035 348
Illinois 2,235 697 0.018 180
Florida 1,101 2495 0.007 69
Arizona 1,021 782 0.020 199
Top States for GALVAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 15,523 189 0.074 744
California 11,774 354 0.035 348
New Mexico 474 504 0.026 261
Nevada 477 620 0.024 239
Arizona 1,021 782 0.020 199

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

Classification and Origin of GALVAN

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 244 0.61
Native American/Alaskan 156 0.39
Mixed Race 148 0.37
Black/African American 84 0.21
White (Hispanic) 36,658 91.54
White (Caucasian) 2,751 6.87

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

Meaning of GALVAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to GALVAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GALVAN.

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 GALVAN

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