How common is the surname Girvan?

438 people in the United States had the surname Girvan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 704,898 Americans. It ranked 48,256th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Girvan getting more or less common?

Less common. 440 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 438 in 2010, down 0.5%.

The surname Girvan

A Scottish Gaelic place surname, carried by 438 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G615

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Girvan is more common than 70.3% of them.

Origin

Scottish Gaelic origin

Anglicisation of Scottish Gaelic Inbhir Gharbhain. Possibly from geàrr (“short”) + abhainn (“river”). Alternatively, from garbh (“rough”).

Girvan is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 438 people named Girvan in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 704,898 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 440.

#48,256

rank among US surnames

438

people in 2010

0.1

per 100,000 Americans

-0.5%

change since 2000 (was #45,735)

Who is named Girvan

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

90% of people named Girvan identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 90%
Black (not Hispanic) 5.9%
Two or more races 2.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Girven
Girvin

Surnames that sound like Girvan

Graven

Girvan has the Soundex code G615, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G615.

Other Scottish Gaelic surnames

All 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Girvan come from?: Anglicisation of Scottish Gaelic Inbhir Gharbhain. Possibly from geàrr (“short”) + abhainn (“river”). Alternatively, from garbh (“rough”).
How common is the surname Girvan?: 438 people in the United States had the surname Girvan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 704,898 Americans. It ranked 48,256th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Girvan?: In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Girvan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Girvan?: Girvan is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Girvan getting more or less common?: Less common. 440 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 438 in 2010, down 0.5%.
What are other spellings of Girvan?: Girven and Girvin.