The HARVEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	112,136	247	0.042	416
United States (1880 census)	25,504	200	0.051	510
Change since 1880	+86632	-47	-0.009	-94
Other Countries
Australia	11,721	88	0.072	717
United Kingdom	44,856	96	0.098	977

Top States for HARVEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	8,203	394	0.024	242
Texas	7,865	315	0.038	377
Florida	7,522	228	0.047	471
Pennsylvania	5,310	191	0.043	432
New York	5,128	295	0.027	270
Top States for HARVEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	1,159	162	0.091	909
West Virginia	1,608	118	0.089	889
Mississippi	2,265	171	0.080	796
Wyoming	326	117	0.066	660
Tennessee	3,697	212	0.065	650

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

Classification and Origin of HARVEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	460	0.41
White (Caucasian)	79,280	70.7
Black/African American	27,036	24.11
Mixed Race	1,850	1.65
Native American/Alaskan	1,749	1.56
White (Hispanic)	1,772	1.58

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

Similar names to HARVEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HARVEY.

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.