The GOVAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,846	10375	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	497	9724	0.001	10
Change since 1880	+2349	-651	0	+1
Other Countries
Australia	306	5119	0.002	19
United Kingdom	828	6103	0.002	18

Top States for GOVAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	358	2165	0.009	89
Texas	328	7145	0.002	16
California	239	12947	0.001	7
Pennsylvania	172	10729	0.001	14
New York	160	14506	0.001	8
Top States for GOVAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	358	2165	0.009	89
Washington DC	21	3267	0.004	37
Mississippi	77	4482	0.003	27
Arkansas	52	6505	0.002	19
Maryland	93	7603	0.002	18

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

Classification and Origin of GOVAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	580	20.38
Mixed Race	72	2.53
Asian/Pacific	68	2.39
White (Hispanic)	65	2.28
Native American/Alaskan	20	0.7
Black/African American	2,041	71.71

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

Similar names to GOVAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOVAN.

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.