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The EVAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,000 13855 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 400 11496 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1600 -2359 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 3 197137 0 0
United Kingdom 90 24491 0 2
Top States for EVAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 211 9054 0.002 17
Alaska 201 436 0.032 321
New York 158 15178 0.001 8
California 156 19208 0.000 5
Ohio 119 13809 0.001 10
Top States for EVAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 201 436 0.032 321
Connecticut 60 9688 0.002 18
Pennsylvania 211 9054 0.002 17
Minnesota 83 11986 0.002 17
Delaware 9 17408 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of EVAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 367 18.35
Native American/Alaskan 241 12.05
White (Hispanic) 150 7.5
Mixed Race 33 1.65
Asian/Pacific 16 0.8
White (Caucasian) 1,193 59.65

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

Meaning of EVAN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of EVAN.

Similar names to EVAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EVAN.

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 EVAN

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