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The GARVIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 340 56246 0 1
United States (1880 census) 59 45185 0 1
Change since 1880 +281 -11061 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 132 11161 0.001 8
United Kingdom 710 6848 0.002 15
Top States for GARVIE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 43 25391 0.000 4
Texas 35 31208 0.000 2
Oklahoma 28 11266 0.001 8
Florida 26 49384 0.000 2
Washington 25 24325 0.000 4
Top States for GARVIE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oklahoma 28 11266 0.001 8
Connecticut 18 23601 0.001 5
Michigan 43 25391 0.000 4
Minnesota 21 30920 0.000 4
Washington 25 24325 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of GARVIE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 289 85
Black/African American 25 7.35
Mixed Race 12 3.53
Native American/Alaskan 12 3.53
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of GARVIE in historical publications

GARVIE. See Garvey.

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 GARVIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GARVIE.

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 GARVIE

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