The COVEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,495	3841	0.003	32
United States (1880 census)	2,179	2772	0.004	44
Change since 1880	+6316	-1069	-0.001	-12
Other Countries
Australia	95	14863	0.001	6
United Kingdom	495	8922	0.001	11

Top States for COVEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	829	2815	0.004	40
California	822	3698	0.002	24
New York	460	4261	0.002	24
Washington	412	1806	0.007	70
Indiana	406	1914	0.007	67
Top States for COVEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	159	620	0.026	261
New Hampshire	121	1662	0.010	98
Oklahoma	305	1568	0.009	88
Delaware	61	2322	0.008	78
Alaska	46	1868	0.007	73

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

Classification and Origin of COVEY

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 COVEY 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 COVEY 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 COVEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	135	1.59
Mixed Race	128	1.51
Native American/Alaskan	105	1.24
Black/African American	78	0.92
Asian/Pacific	55	0.65
White (Caucasian)	7,994	94.1

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

Similar names to COVEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COVEY.

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.