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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

'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.

Meaning of GARVEY in historical publications

GARVEY. The Irish family deduce themselves from the ancient monarchs of that island, through Garbhe or Garvey, that is " The Warlike,"' Prince of Morisk, co. j\Iayo, in the Y. cent. B.L.G.

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 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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GARVEY

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