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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

'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.

Meaning of LAVIN in historical publications

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

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.

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

Potential typos for LAVIN

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