The IRVING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	13,997	2372	0.005	52
United States (1880 census)	3,807	1611	0.008	76
Change since 1880	+10190	-761	-0.003	-24
Other Countries
Australia	1,731	941	0.011	106
United Kingdom	8,878	675	0.019	193

Top States for IRVING by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,345	2414	0.004	40
New York	1,201	1556	0.006	63
Texas	997	2407	0.005	48
Florida	967	2170	0.006	61
Illinois	633	2086	0.005	51
Top States for IRVING by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	223	1154	0.017	175
Washington DC	78	859	0.014	136
New Hampshire	133	1521	0.011	108
Massachusetts	621	1500	0.010	98
Virginia	591	1622	0.008	83

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

Classification and Origin of IRVING

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 IRVING 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 IRVING 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 IRVING in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	259	1.85
White (Hispanic)	239	1.71
Native American/Alaskan	230	1.64
Asian/Pacific	57	0.41
White (Caucasian)	7,572	54.1
Black/African American	5,638	40.28

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

Similar names to IRVING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as IRVING.

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.