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The LIVELY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,731 3098 0.004 40
United States (1880 census) 1,899 3114 0.004 38
Change since 1880 +8832 +16 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 49 26031 0 3
United Kingdom 286 13115 0.001 6
Top States for LIVELY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,498 1689 0.007 72
Georgia 859 1280 0.010 105
Tennessee 642 1414 0.011 113
West Virginia 630 420 0.035 348
Florida 591 3604 0.004 37
Top States for LIVELY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 630 420 0.035 348
Oklahoma 404 1211 0.012 117
Tennessee 642 1414 0.011 113
Georgia 859 1280 0.010 105
Arkansas 248 1488 0.009 93

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

Classification and Origin of LIVELY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 734 6.84
White (Hispanic) 149 1.39
Mixed Race 136 1.27
Native American/Alaskan 49 0.46
Asian/Pacific 45 0.42
White (Caucasian) 9,618 89.63

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

Meaning of LIVELY in historical publications

LIVELY. From natm-al disposition.

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 LIVELY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LIVELY.

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 LIVELY

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