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The GAVIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 13,515 2453 0.005 50
United States (1880 census) 3,082 1974 0.006 62
Change since 1880 +10433 -479 -0.001 -12
Other Countries
Australia 959 1722 0.006 59
United Kingdom 3,612 1734 0.008 79
Top States for GAVIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,135 1683 0.006 60
Florida 1,107 1947 0.007 69
Illinois 1,099 1188 0.009 88
Pennsylvania 888 1742 0.007 72
Massachusetts 883 1071 0.014 139
Top States for GAVIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 883 1071 0.014 139
Mississippi 394 1164 0.014 139
Wisconsin 650 969 0.012 121
Illinois 1,099 1188 0.009 88
Iowa 245 1515 0.008 84

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

Classification and Origin of GAVIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 322 2.38
Mixed Race 165 1.22
Asian/Pacific 72 0.53
Native American/Alaskan 36 0.27
White (Caucasian) 10,590 78.36
Black/African American 2,331 17.25

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

Meaning of GAVIN in historical publications

GAVIN. See Gawen.

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 GAVIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAVIN.

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 GAVIN

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