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The HARVIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 741 29904 0 3
United States (1880 census) 189 20162 0 4
Change since 1880 +552 -9742 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 462 3447 0.003 28
United Kingdom 1,020 5190 0.002 22
Top States for HARVIE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 78 8550 0.001 11
Massachusetts 73 10209 0.001 11
California 61 34133 0.000 2
Florida 54 27795 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 49 27162 0.000 4
Top States for HARVIE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 37 4541 0.003 29
Montana 26 5255 0.003 29
Vermont 16 5426 0.003 26
Alaska 8 12685 0.001 13
Massachusetts 73 10209 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of HARVIE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 677 91.36
Native American/Alaskan 18 2.43
Black/African American 16 2.16
White (Hispanic) 14 1.89
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of HARVIE in historical publications

HARVIE. A northern form of Havvey.

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 HARVIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HARVIE.

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 HARVIE

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