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The GAVAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 332 57406 0 1
United States (1880 census) 237 16995 0 5
Change since 1880 +95 -40411 +N/A -4
Other Countries
Australia 159 9316 0.001 10
United Kingdom 363 11173 0.001 8
Top States for GAVAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 39 27822 0.000 4
California 37 49935 0.000 1
New York 35 44069 0.000 2
New Jersey 32 27007 0.000 4
Missouri 26 20718 0.000 5
Top States for GAVAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 6 18037 0.001 6
Missouri 26 20718 0.000 5
Michigan 39 27822 0.000 4
New Jersey 32 27007 0.000 4
Arizona 16 26838 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of GAVAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 294 88.55
White (Hispanic) 23 6.93
Mixed Race 7 2.11
Asian/Pacific 5 1.51
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of GAVAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to GAVAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAVAN.

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 GAVAN

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