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The BEVERLY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,631 2822 0.004 43
United States (1880 census) 2,058 2914 0.004 41
Change since 1880 +9573 +92 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 61 21597 0 4
United Kingdom 78 24915 0 2
Top States for BEVERLY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 966 1006 0.014 136
Texas 831 2980 0.004 40
Ohio 817 1784 0.007 72
Florida 800 2747 0.005 50
California 718 4371 0.002 21
Top States for BEVERLY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 81 863 0.014 142
Alabama 627 1244 0.014 141
Virginia 966 1006 0.014 136
Louisiana 510 1333 0.011 114
Maryland 501 1303 0.009 95

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

Classification and Origin of BEVERLY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 256 2.2
White (Hispanic) 173 1.49
Native American/Alaskan 72 0.62
Asian/Pacific 33 0.28
Black/African American 5,214 44.83
White (Caucasian) 5,883 50.58

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

Meaning of BEVERLY in historical publications

(origin: Local) From the borough of Beverly in Yorkshire, England; from Belvoir, a beautiful prospect, and ley, a place or field. Some say "the lake of beavers," from Beverlac, and so called from the beavers which abounded in the river Hull, near by.

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


Similar names to BEVERLY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BEVERLY.

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 BEVERLY

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