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The MCGARVIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 236 75938 0 1
United States (1880 census) 3 105258 0 0
Change since 1880 +233 +29320 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 80 17238 0 5
United Kingdom 359 11274 0.001 8
Top States for MCGARVIE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 41 33697 0.000 3
Michigan 20 55961 0.000 2
Washington 20 33794 0.000 3
New Jersey 18 55462 0.000 2
Wisconsin 18 42958 0.000 3
Top States for MCGARVIE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 5 20855 0.001 7
Nevada 7 33986 0.000 4
Washington 20 33794 0.000 3
Wisconsin 18 42958 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 41 33697 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of MCGARVIE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 217 91.95
White (Hispanic) 12 5.08
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of MCGARVIE in historical publications

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

Similar names to MCGARVIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCGARVIE.

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 MCGARVIE

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