The CAVE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,273	3943	0.003	31
United States (1880 census)	1,886	3141	0.004	38
Change since 1880	+6387	-802	-0.001	-7
Other Countries
Australia	770	2104	0.005	47
United Kingdom	5,257	1192	0.011	114

Top States for CAVE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	743	1297	0.010	105
Texas	688	3461	0.003	33
California	531	5565	0.002	16
Florida	522	4052	0.003	33
North Carolina	441	2589	0.005	55
Top States for CAVE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	743	1297	0.010	105
Delaware	60	2412	0.008	77
South Carolina	286	2252	0.007	71
Iowa	180	2228	0.006	62
Nebraska	104	2218	0.006	61

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

Classification and Origin of CAVE

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 CAVE 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 CAVE 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 CAVE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	203	2.45
Mixed Race	124	1.5
Asian/Pacific	112	1.35
Native American/Alaskan	39	0.47
White (Caucasian)	6,652	80.41
Black/African American	1,143	13.82

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

Similar names to CAVE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CAVE.

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.