The MCKELVEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,870	4722	0.003	26
United States (1880 census)	72	38994	0	1
Change since 1880	+6798	+34272	+N/A	+25
Other Countries
Australia	188	7959	0.001	12
United Kingdom	893	5762	0.002	19

Top States for MCKELVEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	744	1999	0.006	61
California	497	5690	0.001	15
Ohio	467	2987	0.004	41
South Carolina	460	1438	0.011	115
Texas	406	5099	0.002	19
Top States for MCKELVEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	460	1438	0.011	115
Delaware	55	2523	0.007	70
Alabama	295	2253	0.007	66
Pennsylvania	744	1999	0.006	61
Tennessee	253	3063	0.004	44

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

Classification and Origin of MCKELVEY

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 MCKELVEY 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 MCKELVEY 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 MCKELVEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	801	11.66
Mixed Race	67	0.98
White (Hispanic)	58	0.84
Native American/Alaskan	27	0.39
Asian/Pacific	14	0.2
White (Caucasian)	5,903	85.92

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

Similar names to MCKELVEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCKELVEY.

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.