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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

'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.

Meaning of BEAVER in historical publications

BEAVER. See Beauvolr.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BEAVER

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