The MCGOVERN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	16,739	1979	0.006	62
United States (1880 census)	74	38370	0	1
Change since 1880	+16665	+36391	+N/A	+61
Other Countries
Australia	1,024	1617	0.006	63
United Kingdom	4,443	1412	0.01	97

Top States for MCGOVERN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	2,022	823	0.011	107
Pennsylvania	1,570	809	0.013	128
New Jersey	1,434	523	0.017	170
Massachusetts	1,383	591	0.022	218
California	1,166	2634	0.003	34
Top States for MCGOVERN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	329	341	0.031	314
Massachusetts	1,383	591	0.022	218
Vermont	112	908	0.018	184
New Jersey	1,434	523	0.017	170
Maine	204	1195	0.016	160

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

Classification and Origin of MCGOVERN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

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 MCGOVERN 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 MCGOVERN 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 MCGOVERN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	233	1.39
Mixed Race	166	0.99
Asian/Pacific	80	0.48
Black/African American	74	0.44
Native American/Alaskan	35	0.21
White (Caucasian)	16,155	96.51

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

Similar names to MCGOVERN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCGOVERN.

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.