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The MCVAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,811 4205 0.003 29
United States (1880 census) 68 41298 0 1
Change since 1880 +7743 +37093 +N/A +28
Other Countries
Australia 83 16784 0.001 5
United Kingdom 471 9226 0.001 10
Top States for MCVAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 629 2190 0.006 55
California 521 5381 0.002 15
Texas 494 4316 0.002 24
Alabama 457 1552 0.010 103
Florida 455 4435 0.003 28
Top States for MCVAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 457 1552 0.010 103
Wyoming 44 1368 0.009 89
Arkansas 230 1552 0.009 86
Iowa 250 1401 0.009 85
Rhode Island 73 2214 0.007 70

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

Classification and Origin of MCVAY

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 MCVAY 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 MCVAY 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 MCVAY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 701 8.97
Mixed Race 111 1.42
White (Hispanic) 104 1.33
Asian/Pacific 38 0.49
Native American/Alaskan 29 0.37
White (Caucasian) 6,828 87.42

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

Meaning of MCVAY in historical publications

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

Similar names to MCVAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCVAY.

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 MCVAY

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