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The GARVIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 331 57544 0 1
United States (1880 census) 137 25205 0 3
Change since 1880 +194 -32339 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 13 71598 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GARVIS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 41 36935 0.000 3
Minnesota 38 20771 0.001 8
California 30 69086 0.000 1
Iowa 26 16591 0.001 9
Virginia 24 22478 0.000 3
Top States for GARVIS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 26 16591 0.001 9
Minnesota 38 20771 0.001 8
Washington DC 4 15458 0.001 7
Nebraska 9 22855 0.001 5
Mississippi 14 11784 0.000 5

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

Classification and Origin of GARVIS

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

Ethnic distribution of GARVIS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 273 82.48
Black/African American 45 13.6
White (Hispanic) 8 2.42
Mixed Race 5 1.51
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

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

Meaning of GARVIS in historical publications

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

Similar names to GARVIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GARVIS.

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 GARVIS

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