The HOVEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,951	6337	0.002	18
United States (1880 census)	2,148	2804	0.004	43
Change since 1880	+2803	-3533	-0.002	-25
Other Countries
Australia	340	4642	0.002	21
United Kingdom	202	16358	0	4

Top States for HOVEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	486	5757	0.001	14
Michigan	390	2976	0.004	39
New York	327	5887	0.002	17
Iowa	311	1080	0.011	106
Minnesota	277	2181	0.006	56
Top States for HOVEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Iowa	311	1080	0.011	106
Maine	125	1830	0.010	98
New Hampshire	72	2553	0.006	58
Minnesota	277	2181	0.006	56
Idaho	63	2910	0.005	49

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

Classification and Origin of HOVEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	131	2.65
Mixed Race	51	1.03
Black/African American	44	0.89
Asian/Pacific	29	0.59
Native American/Alaskan	23	0.46
White (Caucasian)	4,673	94.38

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

Similar names to HOVEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOVEY.

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.