The GIVENS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	23,823	1364	0.009	88
United States (1880 census)	4,137	1492	0.008	83
Change since 1880	+19686	+128	+0.001	+5
Other Countries
Australia	21	49612	0	1
United Kingdom	377	10885	0.001	8

Top States for GIVENS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,745	1536	0.008	84
Florida	1,723	1299	0.011	108
California	1,668	2066	0.005	49
Tennessee	1,359	710	0.024	239
Ohio	1,114	1300	0.010	98
Top States for GIVENS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	217	652	0.028	277
Louisiana	1,104	628	0.025	247
Tennessee	1,359	710	0.024	239
Mississippi	657	728	0.023	231
Alabama	1,020	796	0.023	229

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

Classification and Origin of GIVENS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	462	1.94
White (Hispanic)	329	1.38
Native American/Alaskan	179	0.75
Asian/Pacific	60	0.25
White (Caucasian)	12,300	51.63
Black/African American	10,494	44.05

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

Similar names to GIVENS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GIVENS.

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.