The BEAVER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	21,963	1488	0.008	81
United States (1880 census)	4,869	1274	0.01	97
Change since 1880	+17094	-214	-0.002	-16
Other Countries
Australia	502	3206	0.003	31
United Kingdom	1,417	3942	0.003	31

Top States for BEAVER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	2,532	466	0.031	315
Pennsylvania	1,899	702	0.015	155
Texas	1,465	1744	0.007	70
California	1,456	2268	0.004	43
Ohio	1,405	974	0.012	124
Top States for BEAVER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	2,532	466	0.031	315
Oklahoma	739	651	0.021	214
West Virginia	332	874	0.018	184
Arkansas	449	820	0.017	168
Pennsylvania	1,899	702	0.015	155

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

Classification and Origin of BEAVER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	731	3.33
Mixed Race	378	1.72
White (Hispanic)	325	1.48
Asian/Pacific	90	0.41
White (Caucasian)	19,374	88.21
Black/African American	1,065	4.85

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

Similar names to BEAVER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BEAVER.

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.