The GLANVILLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	864	26538	0	3
United States (1880 census)	196	19627	0	4
Change since 1880	+668	-6911	+N/A	-1
Other Countries
Australia	649	2499	0.004	40
United Kingdom	1,864	3142	0.004	41

Top States for GLANVILLE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	132	13353	0.000	4
New York	79	16796	0.000	4
Florida	61	19463	0.000	4
Washington	40	12484	0.001	7
Texas	37	25383	0.000	2
Top States for GLANVILLE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	14	5781	0.002	22
Washington DC	11	3726	0.002	19
Maine	16	6604	0.001	13
Rhode Island	13	8073	0.001	12
Kansas	26	8747	0.001	10

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

Classification and Origin of GLANVILLE

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 GLANVILLE 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 GLANVILLE 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 GLANVILLE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	707	81.83
Black/African American	117	13.54
White (Hispanic)	16	1.85
Mixed Race	15	1.74
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Meaning of GLANVILLE in historical publications

(origin: Local) A house or castle on the shore of a river or the sea; Welsh, glan, a shore, bank of a river; old French or Gaelic, the same; as Glandeve, in France, on the banks of the Var. Glan or glen signifies also a narrow valley or dell.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

GLANVILLE. A place in the arrondissement of Pout-l'Eveque, in Normandy. It is latinized ' De Glanvilla,' and anglicized Glanfield. Robert de Glanville, a tenant in Suffolk, temp. Domesd. was ancestor of the earls of Suffolk of that name. The Glanvilles of Catchfrench, co. Cornwall, are descended from the G.'s of Halwell, CO. Devon, circ. 1400, (Shirley's Noble and Gentle Men) and they, according to tradition, from Eanulf de Glanville, lord of Glanville, near Pont I'Eveque, who entered England with the Conqueror. C. S. Gilbert's Cornwall, ii. 171.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to GLANVILLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GLANVILLE.

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.