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The CHIVERS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,505 17316 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 304 14130 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +1201 -3186 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 891 1840 0.005 55
United Kingdom 3,946 1581 0.009 86
Top States for CHIVERS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 127 19830 0.000 4
Texas 127 13560 0.001 6
Florida 97 18572 0.001 6
Utah 96 3135 0.004 43
Georgia 91 7781 0.001 11
Top States for CHIVERS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 31 3082 0.005 49
Utah 96 3135 0.004 43
Wyoming 21 3360 0.004 43
Idaho 48 4046 0.004 37
New Hampshire 19 8627 0.002 15

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

Classification and Origin of CHIVERS

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 CHIVERS 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 CHIVERS 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 CHIVERS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 336 22.33
White (Hispanic) 42 2.79
Mixed Race 24 1.59
Native American/Alaskan 22 1.46
Asian/Pacific 7 0.47
White (Caucasian) 1,074 71.36

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

Meaning of CHIVERS in historical publications

CHIVERS. See Cheever.

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 CHIVERS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHIVERS.

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 CHIVERS

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