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The MARVIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,375 3174 0.004 38
United States (1880 census) 3,791 1619 0.008 76
Change since 1880 +6584 -1555 -0.004 -38
Other Countries
Australia 54 23798 0 3
United Kingdom 770 6436 0.002 17
Top States for MARVIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 909 1190 0.009 91
New York 878 2143 0.005 46
California 870 3513 0.003 26
Ohio 719 1941 0.006 63
Florida 711 2937 0.004 44
Top States for MARVIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 101 775 0.016 161
Michigan 909 1190 0.009 91
Oregon 275 1575 0.008 80
Iowa 231 1576 0.008 79
Montana 71 1701 0.008 79

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

Classification and Origin of MARVIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 528 5.09
White (Hispanic) 208 2
Mixed Race 159 1.53
Native American/Alaskan 122 1.18
Asian/Pacific 48 0.46
White (Caucasian) 9,309 89.73

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

Meaning of MARVIN in historical publications

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

Similar names to MARVIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MARVIN.

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 MARVIN

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