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The LEVEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 694 31530 0 3
United States (1880 census) 130 26299 0 3
Change since 1880 +564 -5231 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 108 13364 0.001 7
United Kingdom 141 20279 0 3
Top States for LEVEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 71 24994 0.000 4
Florida 69 23012 0.000 4
Texas 68 20421 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 59 23352 0.000 5
California 48 43669 0.000 1
Top States for LEVEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 11 7320 0.002 18
Oklahoma 27 12384 0.001 8
Delaware 6 21330 0.001 8
Massachusetts 48 15547 0.001 8
Maryland 34 15249 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of LEVEN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 568 81.84
White (Hispanic) 70 10.09
Black/African American 42 6.05
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.86
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of LEVEN in historical publications

(origin: Local) A river in Lancashire, England, also a town, lake, and river in Lennox, Scotland, whence the county derives its name. (See Lennox.) From the Welsh Llyfn, smooth, placid--the smooth river. The Gaelic Liomha-abhainn, pronounced Le-avon, signifies the same thing.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to LEVEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEVEN.

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 LEVEN

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