How common is the surname Caver?

1,975 people in the United States had the surname Caver in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 156,327 Americans. It ranked 14,970th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Caver getting more or less common?

More common. 1,957 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,975 in 2010, up 0.9%.

The surname Caver

A surname, carried by 1,975 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C160

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Caver is more common than 90.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,975 people named Caver in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 156,327 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,957.

#14,970

rank among US surnames

1,975

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+0.9%

change since 2000 (was #14,108)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#14,965	Smathers	1,976	156,248
#14,970	Hagopian	1,975	156,327
#14,976	Charland	1,974	156,406
#14,979	Traore	1,973	156,485

Who is named Caver

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

58% of people named Caver identified as Black (not Hispanic), 36% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as two or more races.

Black (not Hispanic) 58%
White (not Hispanic) 36%
Two or more races 2.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Caver

Caver has the Soundex code C160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C160.

Questions

How common is the surname Caver?: 1,975 people in the United States had the surname Caver in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 156,327 Americans. It ranked 14,970th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Caver?: In the 2010 Census, 58% of people named Caver identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 36% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Caver getting more or less common?: More common. 1,957 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,975 in 2010, up 0.9%.