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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

'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.

Meaning of GIVEN in historical publications

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

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GIVEN

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