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The HAVEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,463 8733 0.001 13
United States (1880 census) 1,581 3662 0.003 32
Change since 1880 +1882 -5071 -0.002 -19
Other Countries
Australia 24 45783 0 1
United Kingdom 111 22967 0 2
Top States for HAVEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 379 7371 0.001 11
Ohio 238 5955 0.002 21
Michigan 205 6087 0.002 21
Florida 200 9536 0.001 13
Texas 194 9396 0.001 9
Top States for HAVEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 23 6104 0.003 30
Mississippi 85 3681 0.003 30
Maine 37 4763 0.003 29
Washington 167 4523 0.003 28
Montana 24 6148 0.003 27

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

Classification and Origin of HAVEN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 145 4.19
Native American/Alaskan 76 2.19
White (Hispanic) 65 1.88
Mixed Race 59 1.7
Asian/Pacific 8 0.23
White (Caucasian) 3,110 89.81

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

Meaning of HAVEN in historical publications

HAVEN. HAVENS. 1. From residence near a port or haven. In Scotland the hollow or sheltered part of a hill is called the liaaf or haven.

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 HAVEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HAVEN.

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 HAVEN

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