The GRAVES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	82,179	340	0.03	305
United States (1880 census)	24,478	208	0.049	490
Change since 1880	+57701	-132	-0.019	-185
Other Countries
Australia	786	2059	0.005	48
United Kingdom	5,930	1061	0.013	129

Top States for GRAVES by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	6,767	364	0.032	325
California	5,905	541	0.017	174
Tennessee	4,577	166	0.080	804
Florida	3,831	506	0.024	240
North Carolina	3,567	307	0.044	443
Top States for GRAVES by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	2,344	162	0.082	824
Tennessee	4,577	166	0.080	804
Arkansas	1,737	188	0.065	650
Kentucky	2,393	229	0.059	592
Alabama	2,495	271	0.056	561

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

Classification and Origin of GRAVES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	592	0.72
Asian/Pacific	304	0.37
White (Caucasian)	59,128	71.95
Black/African American	19,361	23.56
Mixed Race	1,430	1.74
White (Hispanic)	1,364	1.66

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

Similar names to GRAVES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRAVES.

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.