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The RAVENEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 535 38833 0 2
United States (1880 census) 239 16931 0 5
Change since 1880 +296 -21902 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for RAVENEL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 307 1889 0.008 77
Florida 37 37329 0.000 2
North Carolina 35 13546 0.000 4
New York 29 53385 0.000 2
Pennsylvania 24 49792 0.000 2
Top States for RAVENEL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 307 1889 0.008 77
Delaware 5 22094 0.001 6
North Carolina 35 13546 0.000 4
Georgia 19 22016 0.000 2
Florida 37 37329 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 RAVENEL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called RAVENEL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called RAVENEL in South Carolina than any other state, but you are more likely to find a RAVENEL by picking someone at random in South Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of RAVENEL

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

Ethnic distribution of RAVENEL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 358 66.92
White (Caucasian) 165 30.84
Mixed Race 7 1.31
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of RAVENEL in historical publications

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

Similar names to RAVENEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RAVENEL.

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 RAVENEL

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