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The KEVIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 388 50572 0 1
United States (1880 census) 70 40072 0 1
Change since 1880 +318 -10500 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 64 20828 0 4
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KEVIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 47 14371 0.000 1
Illinois 34 10669 0.000 3
New York 31 16330 0.000 2
Florida 19 23655 0.000 1
Texas 18 21200 0.000 1
Top States for KEVIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 4 10850 0.000 3
North Dakota 2 13477 0.000 3
Illinois 34 10669 0.000 3
Minnesota 13 16856 0.000 3
Washington 13 15212 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of KEVIN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the KEVIN surname.

Ethnic distribution of KEVIN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 309 79.64
Black/African American 47 12.11
White (Hispanic) 11 2.84
Asian/Pacific 8 2.06
Mixed Race 8 2.06
Native American/Alaskan 5 1.29

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

KEVIN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of KEVIN in historical publications

KEVIN. Irish camhgin, "the beautiful offspring." O'Donovan, in Irish Penny Jouru., p. 327.

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 KEVIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KEVIN.

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 KEVIN

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