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The MCKELVIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 664 32609 0 2
United States (1880 census) 55 47042 0 1
Change since 1880 +609 +14433 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 333 4737 0.002 20
United Kingdom 997 5271 0.002 22
Top States for MCKELVIE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 106 20796 0.000 3
Michigan 61 19433 0.001 6
Pennsylvania 53 25129 0.000 4
Florida 39 36294 0.000 2
Colorado 33 15048 0.001 8
Top States for MCKELVIE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 7 7950 0.001 12
Colorado 33 15048 0.001 8
Connecticut 24 18556 0.001 7
Vermont 4 17251 0.001 7
New Hampshire 8 18298 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of MCKELVIE

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 MCKELVIE 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 MCKELVIE 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 MCKELVIE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 535 80.57
Black/African American 73 10.99
Native American/Alaskan 32 4.82
White (Hispanic) 10 1.51
Mixed Race 9 1.36
Asian/Pacific 5 0.75

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

Meaning of MCKELVIE in historical publications

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

Similar names to MCKELVIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCKELVIE.

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 MCKELVIE

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