The METHVEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	315	59916	0	1
United States (1880 census)	19	75260	0	0
Change since 1880	+296	+15344	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	108	13319	0.001	7
United Kingdom	665	7193	0.001	14

Top States for METHVEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Washington	43	14184	0.001	7
Pennsylvania	30	38861	0.000	2
California	26	67301	0.000	1
Michigan	24	42219	0.000	2
New York	22	66090	0.000	1
Top States for METHVEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	10	11380	0.001	13
Washington	43	14184	0.001	7
New Hampshire	8	16244	0.001	6
Oregon	13	26334	0.000	4
Alaska	2	37718	0.000	3

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

Classification and Origin of METHVEN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	309	98.1
Asian/Pacific	None reported	0
Black/African American	None reported	0
Mixed Race	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	None reported	0
White (Hispanic)	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Similar names to METHVEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as METHVEN.

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.