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The O'VEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 202 85996 0 1
United States (1880 census) 17 76819 0 0
Change since 1880 +185 -9177 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 7 117471 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for O'VEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 33 24451 0.001 7
Florida 31 50000 0.000 2
Massachusetts 16 45260 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 16 80759 0.000 1
New York 12 128977 0.000 1
Top States for O'VEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 33 24451 0.001 7
Oklahoma 12 23614 0.000 3
Massachusetts 16 45260 0.000 3
Wisconsin 12 57140 0.000 2
Montana 2 43196 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of O'VEN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the O'VEN surname.

Ethnic distribution of O'VEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 176 87.13
Mixed Race 8 3.96
White (Hispanic) 8 3.96
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

O'VEN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of O'VEN in historical publications

OVEN. If the O be long, the name may be a con-uption of Oving, a parish in Sussex. Mr. Ferguson, however, derives it from the 0. Norse ovanr, inexperienced.

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 O'VEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as O'VEN.

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 O'VEN

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