The NEVILLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,258	2935	0.004	42
United States (1880 census)	2,089	2862	0.004	42
Change since 1880	+9169	-73	0	0
Other Countries
Australia	2,091	774	0.013	128
United Kingdom	5,271	1187	0.011	115

Top States for NEVILLE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	831	2210	0.004	44
Florida	788	2588	0.005	49
California	757	3908	0.002	22
Ohio	654	2088	0.006	58
Massachusetts	534	1684	0.008	84
Top States for NEVILLE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Hampshire	115	1694	0.009	93
Rhode Island	95	1674	0.009	91
Wyoming	43	1372	0.009	87
Utah	191	1570	0.009	86
Massachusetts	534	1684	0.008	84

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

Classification and Origin of NEVILLE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	153	1.36
Mixed Race	129	1.15
Asian/Pacific	57	0.51
Native American/Alaskan	32	0.28
White (Caucasian)	9,749	86.6
Black/African American	1,139	10.12

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

Meaning of NEVILLE in historical publications

(origin: Fr.) "De Neuve ville," of the new town. Neuville, a town in Poitou, France.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

NEVILLE. NEVEI;L. In Latin, Be Nova Villa, anglice, ' New-town.' There are two Nevilles, and at least eighteen Neuvilles in Normandy, but from which of those localities tliis illustrious surname is derived there is no proof; and indeed the eai'ly genealogy of the family is obscure. Dugdale, upon the authority of certain genealogists, asserts that the patriarch of the race in England was Gilbert de Neville, Admiral to the Conqueror, but there is, as the historian of the family remarks, no mention of him in Domesday. Rowland, Family of Nevill, p. 6. The great granddaughter of this Admiral, Isabel Neville, married one Robert Fitz-Maldred, who according to Roger Hoveden, was the lineal heir-male of Uchtred, Earl of Northumljerlaud, in the days of Edmund Ironside, and a descendant in the female line from King Ethelred. The representative of the Northumbrian earls,Gospatrick,was established in his earldom jjy ihe Conqueror, but was afterwards compelled by Norman tyranny to fly into Scotland, where he became ancestor of the Earls of Dunbar, and eventually of the Nevilles of Raby. " The

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to NEVILLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NEVILLE.

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.