The GIVEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,668	8305	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	1,639	3543	0.003	33
Change since 1880	+2029	-4762	-0.002	-19
Other Countries
Australia	98	14547	0.001	6
United Kingdom	721	6764	0.002	16

Top States for GIVEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	332	857	0.018	184
California	315	8662	0.001	9
Ohio	303	4697	0.003	27
Florida	207	9231	0.001	13
Pennsylvania	195	7908	0.002	16
Top States for GIVEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	332	857	0.018	184
Maine	98	2296	0.008	77
Idaho	52	3618	0.004	40
Montana	30	4787	0.003	33
New Hampshire	37	4620	0.003	30

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

Classification and Origin of GIVEN

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 GIVEN 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 GIVEN 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 GIVEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	119	3.24
Mixed Race	42	1.15
Native American/Alaskan	27	0.74
White (Hispanic)	27	0.74
Asian/Pacific	24	0.65
White (Caucasian)	3,429	93.48

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

Similar names to GIVEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GIVEN.

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.