The GARVEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,113	2981	0.004	41
United States (1880 census)	3,364	1820	0.007	67
Change since 1880	+7749	-1161	-0.003	-26
Other Countries
Australia	694	2323	0.004	42
United Kingdom	2,694	2310	0.006	59

Top States for GARVEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,265	1403	0.007	67
Massachusetts	950	911	0.015	150
California	804	3650	0.002	24
Pennsylvania	773	1873	0.006	63
Florida	721	2788	0.005	45
Top States for GARVEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	950	911	0.015	150
Vermont	83	1298	0.014	136
Rhode Island	114	1330	0.011	109
Connecticut	327	1266	0.010	96
New Hampshire	118	1646	0.010	95

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

Classification and Origin of GARVEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

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 GARVEY 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 GARVEY 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 GARVEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	502	4.52
White (Hispanic)	180	1.62
Mixed Race	134	1.21
Asian/Pacific	74	0.67
Native American/Alaskan	34	0.31
White (Caucasian)	10,188	91.68

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

Similar names to GARVEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GARVEY.

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.