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The IVEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 22,552 1452 0.008 84
United States (1880 census) 3,370 1817 0.007 67
Change since 1880 +19182 +365 +0.001 +17
Other Countries
Australia 401 3947 0.002 25
United Kingdom 869 5886 0.002 19
Top States for IVEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 2,998 332 0.037 366
North Carolina 2,388 500 0.030 297
Texas 2,186 1209 0.010 105
Alabama 1,719 422 0.039 387
Florida 1,706 1264 0.011 107
Top States for IVEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 1,719 422 0.039 387
Georgia 2,998 332 0.037 366
North Carolina 2,388 500 0.030 297
South Carolina 1,058 645 0.026 264
Tennessee 1,372 677 0.024 241

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

Classification and Origin of IVEY

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 IVEY 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 IVEY 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 IVEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 313 1.39
White (Hispanic) 284 1.26
Native American/Alaskan 214 0.95
Asian/Pacific 61 0.27
White (Caucasian) 16,828 74.62
Black/African American 4,851 21.51

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

Meaning of IVEY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of IVEY.

Similar names to IVEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as IVEY.

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 IVEY

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