The GARVIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	13,027	2551	0.005	48
United States (1880 census)	3,755	1634	0.008	75
Change since 1880	+9272	-917	-0.003	-27
Other Countries
Australia	205	7373	0.001	13
United Kingdom	562	8172	0.001	12

Top States for GARVIN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	1,086	625	0.027	271
Florida	972	2190	0.006	61
Texas	928	2578	0.004	45
California	903	3466	0.003	27
Pennsylvania	690	2274	0.006	56
Top States for GARVIN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	1,086	625	0.027	271
Washington DC	73	919	0.013	128
New Hampshire	103	1969	0.008	83
Wyoming	41	1553	0.008	83
Oklahoma	268	1839	0.008	78

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

Classification and Origin of GARVIN

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 GARVIN 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 GARVIN 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 GARVIN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	236	1.81
Mixed Race	207	1.59
Native American/Alaskan	124	0.95
Asian/Pacific	72	0.55
White (Caucasian)	9,230	70.85
Black/African American	3,160	24.26

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

Similar names to GARVIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GARVIN.

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.