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The COVENTRY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 731 30229 0 3
United States (1880 census) 285 14836 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +446 -15393 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 650 2496 0.004 40
United Kingdom 1,520 3709 0.003 33
Top States for COVENTRY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 132 10130 0.001 12
Illinois 125 10739 0.001 10
Michigan 53 23781 0.001 5
Florida 50 31591 0.000 3
New York 47 37859 0.000 2
Top States for COVENTRY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 17 8069 0.002 22
Washington DC 7 7419 0.001 12
Ohio 132 10130 0.001 12
Illinois 125 10739 0.001 10
Connecticut 29 15989 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of COVENTRY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 701 95.9
Mixed Race 10 1.37
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.82
White (Hispanic) 6 0.82
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of COVENTRY in historical publications

(origin: Local) A city in Warwickshire, England; from Coven, a convent, and tre, British, a town--the town of the convent; Welsh, "Cyfaint-tre."

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


COVENTRY. The city in co. Warwick.

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 COVENTRY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COVENTRY.

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 COVENTRY

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