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The OLVEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 444 45403 0 2
United States (1880 census) 119 27946 0 2
Change since 1880 +325 -17457 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for OLVEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 76 5858 0.002 17
Georgia 70 9103 0.001 9
Indiana 52 13225 0.001 9
Arizona 40 13485 0.001 8
Tennessee 40 11004 0.001 7
Top States for OLVEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 76 5858 0.002 17
Indiana 52 13225 0.001 9
Georgia 70 9103 0.001 9
Arizona 40 13485 0.001 8
Tennessee 40 11004 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of OLVEY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the OLVEY surname.

Ethnic distribution of OLVEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 431 97.07
White (Hispanic) 5 1.13
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

OLVEY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of OLVEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to OLVEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OLVEY.

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 OLVEY

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