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The GRAVE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 738 30003 0 3
United States (1880 census) 506 9584 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +232 -20419 +N/A -7
Other Countries
Australia 140 10546 0.001 9
United Kingdom 232 15037 0.001 5
Top States for GRAVE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 92 28301 0.000 3
Minnesota 84 10831 0.002 17
Iowa 73 7257 0.002 25
New Jersey 53 21517 0.001 6
Florida 42 41048 0.000 3
Top States for GRAVE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 38 3963 0.005 50
Iowa 73 7257 0.002 25
Rhode Island 18 9672 0.002 17
Minnesota 84 10831 0.002 17
Arizona 34 17756 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of GRAVE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 554 75.07
White (Hispanic) 94 12.74
Black/African American 62 8.4
Mixed Race 14 1.9
Asian/Pacific 9 1.22
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.68

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

Meaning of GRAVE in historical publications

BY GRAVE. A parish in Herts.

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 GRAVE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRAVE.

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 GRAVE

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