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The CAVAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 626 34259 0 2
United States (1880 census) 149 23861 0 3
Change since 1880 +477 -10398 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 20 52466 0 1
United Kingdom 202 16373 0 4
Top States for CAVAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 135 16729 0.000 4
Iowa 75 5507 0.003 26
Florida 40 35099 0.000 3
Massachusetts 33 20978 0.001 5
New York 27 57988 0.000 1
Top States for CAVAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 75 5507 0.003 26
Alaska 11 8499 0.002 18
Montana 8 16170 0.001 9
New Hampshire 9 15358 0.001 7
Oregon 23 16670 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 CAVAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CAVAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CAVAN in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CAVAN by picking someone at random in Iowa than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CAVAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 388 61.98
Asian/Pacific 164 26.2
White (Hispanic) 46 7.35
Mixed Race 20 3.19
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of CAVAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to CAVAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CAVAN.

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 CAVAN

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