The DONOVAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	39,270	799	0.015	146
United States (1880 census)	9,711	621	0.019	194
Change since 1880	+29559	-178	-0.004	-48
Other Countries
Australia	3,056	506	0.019	187
United Kingdom	7,370	836	0.016	160

Top States for DONOVAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	5,966	61	0.094	940
New York	3,858	380	0.020	203
California	2,657	1177	0.008	78
Florida	2,438	776	0.015	153
Pennsylvania	2,056	568	0.017	167
Top States for DONOVAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	5,966	61	0.094	940
Delaware	554	163	0.071	707
New Hampshire	860	123	0.070	696
Maine	676	307	0.053	530
Connecticut	1,123	248	0.033	330

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

Classification and Origin of DONOVAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	734	1.87
Black/African American	668	1.7
Mixed Race	424	1.08
Asian/Pacific	208	0.53
Native American/Alaskan	90	0.23
White (Caucasian)	37,145	94.59

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

Similar names to DONOVAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DONOVAN.

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.