The CRAVEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	15,149	2201	0.006	56
United States (1880 census)	3,490	1751	0.007	70
Change since 1880	+11659	-450	-0.001	-14
Other Countries
Australia	1,131	1456	0.007	69
United Kingdom	6,626	956	0.014	144

Top States for CRAVEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	1,638	718	0.020	203
California	1,015	3081	0.003	30
Texas	995	2376	0.005	48
Florida	910	2244	0.006	57
South Carolina	900	719	0.022	224
Top States for CRAVEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	900	719	0.022	224
North Carolina	1,638	718	0.020	203
Mississippi	373	1172	0.013	131
Colorado	367	1531	0.009	85
Georgia	697	1522	0.009	85

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

Classification and Origin of CRAVEN

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 CRAVEN 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 CRAVEN 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 CRAVEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	792	5.23
Mixed Race	188	1.24
White (Hispanic)	186	1.23
Native American/Alaskan	76	0.5
Asian/Pacific	48	0.32
White (Caucasian)	13,858	91.48

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

Meaning of CRAVEN in historical publications

One who begs for his life when conquered; from crave, a word used formerly by one vanquished in trial by battle, and yielding to the conqueror. Craven is also the name of a place in Yorkshire, England, very stony, derived from craig, Cor. Br., a rock, and pen, a head.

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

CRAVEN. In the days of chivalry this word meant a coward — one who ' craved' mercy from an antagonist, and it was also applied to a fighting-cock that failed in combat.

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 CRAVEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CRAVEN.

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.