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The GRANVILLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,343 12193 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 465 10255 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +1878 -1938 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 104 13861 0.001 6
United Kingdom 702 6903 0.002 15
Top States for GRANVILLE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 314 7865 0.002 17
Florida 209 11141 0.001 13
Pennsylvania 199 9620 0.002 16
Georgia 190 5216 0.002 23
California 166 18275 0.000 5
Top States for GRANVILLE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 104 6162 0.002 23
Georgia 190 5216 0.002 23
Massachusetts 117 8673 0.002 18
New York 314 7865 0.002 17
Connecticut 56 10487 0.002 16

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

Classification and Origin of GRANVILLE

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 GRANVILLE 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 GRANVILLE 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 GRANVILLE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 909 38.8
Mixed Race 61 2.6
White (Hispanic) 50 2.13
Asian/Pacific 14 0.6
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.26
White (Caucasian) 1,303 55.61

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

Meaning of GRANVILLE in historical publications

GRANVILLE. See Grenville.

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


(origin: Local Fr.) A town in France on the English channel, Grande-ville-the great town or city. De Grandville.

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


Similar names to GRANVILLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRANVILLE.

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 GRANVILLE

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