The CLEAVER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,476	6915	0.002	17
United States (1880 census)	1,474	3901	0.003	29
Change since 1880	+3002	-3014	-0.001	-12
Other Countries
Australia	717	2256	0.004	44
United Kingdom	3,391	1841	0.007	74

Top States for CLEAVER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	519	3082	0.004	42
Texas	423	5113	0.002	20
California	346	8125	0.001	10
Florida	231	8520	0.001	14
Michigan	186	6912	0.002	19
Top States for CLEAVER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	83	1773	0.011	106
Pennsylvania	519	3082	0.004	42
Arkansas	98	3495	0.004	37
Oregon	123	3703	0.004	36
Iowa	99	4529	0.003	34

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

Classification and Origin of CLEAVER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	425	9.5
Mixed Race	58	1.3
White (Hispanic)	58	1.3
Asian/Pacific	30	0.67
Native American/Alaskan	21	0.47
White (Caucasian)	3,884	86.77

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

Similar names to CLEAVER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CLEAVER.

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.