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The PROVO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,531 17101 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 458 10379 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +1073 -6722 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 2 229213 0 0
United Kingdom 13 30009 0 0
Top States for PROVO by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 164 4215 0.003 33
Michigan 148 8440 0.001 15
Ohio 96 13532 0.001 8
California 87 26047 0.000 3
New York 87 21283 0.000 5
Top States for PROVO by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 164 4215 0.003 33
Alaska 15 6662 0.002 24
Michigan 148 8440 0.001 15
Alabama 60 6689 0.001 13
Washington 74 9765 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of PROVO

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 PROVO 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 PROVO 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 PROVO in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 246 16.07
Mixed Race 24 1.57
White (Hispanic) 19 1.24
White (Caucasian) 1,232 80.47
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of PROVO in historical publications

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

Similar names to PROVO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PROVO.

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 PROVO

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