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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

'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.

Meaning of IRVING in historical publications

IRVING. An ancient parish In Dumfriesshire.

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 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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for IRVING

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