The LAVIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,435	5000	0.002	24
United States (1880 census)	1,069	5161	0.002	21
Change since 1880	+5366	+161	0	+3
Other Countries
Australia	129	11356	0.001	8
United Kingdom	1,536	3666	0.003	33

Top States for LAVIN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	742	2549	0.004	39
California	616	4663	0.002	18
Florida	540	3793	0.003	34
New Jersey	515	1778	0.006	61
Pennsylvania	499	3074	0.004	41
Top States for LAVIN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	490	1838	0.008	77
Rhode Island	65	2514	0.006	62
New Jersey	515	1778	0.006	61
Vermont	37	2740	0.006	61
New Hampshire	73	2557	0.006	59

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

Classification and Origin of LAVIN

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 LAVIN 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 LAVIN 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 LAVIN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	592	9.2
Mixed Race	72	1.12
Black/African American	47	0.73
Asian/Pacific	40	0.62
Native American/Alaskan	15	0.23
White (Caucasian)	5,669	88.1

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

Similar names to LAVIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAVIN.

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.