The GREAVES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,731	6608	0.002	18
United States (1880 census)	884	6044	0.002	18
Change since 1880	+3847	-564	0	0
Other Countries
Australia	1,581	1030	0.01	97
United Kingdom	10,410	572	0.023	227

Top States for GREAVES by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	671	2822	0.004	35
Florida	470	4252	0.003	29
California	408	6671	0.001	12
Pennsylvania	313	4790	0.003	25
Massachusetts	214	3960	0.003	34
Top States for GREAVES by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	70	1555	0.011	115
Rhode Island	73	2203	0.007	70
Utah	117	2444	0.005	52
Washington DC	28	2086	0.005	49
Connecticut	148	3020	0.004	43

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

Classification and Origin of GREAVES

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 GREAVES 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 GREAVES 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 GREAVES in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	128	2.71
White (Hispanic)	124	2.62
Native American/Alaskan	38	0.8
Asian/Pacific	25	0.53
White (Caucasian)	3,078	65.06
Black/African American	1,338	28.28

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

Similar names to GREAVES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GREAVES.

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.