The GAVIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	13,515	2453	0.005	50
United States (1880 census)	3,082	1974	0.006	62
Change since 1880	+10433	-479	-0.001	-12
Other Countries
Australia	959	1722	0.006	59
United Kingdom	3,612	1734	0.008	79

Top States for GAVIN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,135	1683	0.006	60
Florida	1,107	1947	0.007	69
Illinois	1,099	1188	0.009	88
Pennsylvania	888	1742	0.007	72
Massachusetts	883	1071	0.014	139
Top States for GAVIN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	883	1071	0.014	139
Mississippi	394	1164	0.014	139
Wisconsin	650	969	0.012	121
Illinois	1,099	1188	0.009	88
Iowa	245	1515	0.008	84

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

Classification and Origin of GAVIN

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 GAVIN 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 GAVIN 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 GAVIN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	322	2.38
Mixed Race	165	1.22
Asian/Pacific	72	0.53
Native American/Alaskan	36	0.27
White (Caucasian)	10,590	78.36
Black/African American	2,331	17.25

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

Similar names to GAVIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAVIN.

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.