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The LAVAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,049 22809 0 4
United States (1880 census) 290 14659 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +759 -8150 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 33 35622 0 2
United Kingdom 151 19396 0 3
Top States for LAVAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 176 8659 0.001 14
New York 122 15636 0.001 6
Texas 102 15351 0.000 5
New Jersey 89 11139 0.001 11
Florida 86 19740 0.001 5
Top States for LAVAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 81 6236 0.002 18
Pennsylvania 176 8659 0.001 14
New Jersey 89 11139 0.001 11
Maine 13 10613 0.001 10
Alaska 5 22161 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of LAVAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 642 61.2
Black/African American 325 30.98
Asian/Pacific 35 3.34
White (Hispanic) 22 2.1
Mixed Race 18 1.72
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.67

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

Meaning of LAVAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to LAVAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAVAN.

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 LAVAN

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