The CANAVAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,188	9374	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	553	8902	0.001	11
Change since 1880	+2635	-472	0	+1
Other Countries
Australia	380	4179	0.002	23
United Kingdom	1,976	2984	0.004	43

Top States for CANAVAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	483	1823	0.008	76
New York	394	4775	0.002	21
Florida	251	7443	0.002	16
Pennsylvania	251	5884	0.002	20
New Jersey	232	4055	0.003	28
Top States for CANAVAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	483	1823	0.008	76
Rhode Island	63	2500	0.006	60
New Hampshire	41	4084	0.003	33
Connecticut	108	4121	0.003	32
Vermont	19	4594	0.003	31

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

Classification and Origin of CANAVAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	68	2.13
Mixed Race	20	0.63
Asian/Pacific	15	0.47
Black/African American	12	0.38
Native American/Alaskan	7	0.22
White (Caucasian)	3,066	96.17

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

Similar names to CANAVAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CANAVAN.

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.