How common is the surname Graven?

921 people in the United States had the surname Graven in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 335,229 Americans. It ranked 26,492nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Graven?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Graven identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Is the surname Graven getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,045 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 921 in 2010, down 12%.

The surname Graven

A German place surname, carried by 921 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). Graven is more common than 83.7% of them.

Origin

German origin

* As an English surname, a topographic surname for someone living near a ditch, from Middle Low German grav (“moat, ditch”), from Old Saxon graf, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, the source of grave. * As a Norwegian surname, from Old Norse gróf (“depression, hollow”), from Proto-Germanic *grōbō.

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

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 921 people named Graven in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 335,229 Americans. That is down 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,045.

#26,492

rank among US surnames

921

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

-11.9%

change since 2000 (was #22,870)

Who is named Graven

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

93% of people named Graven identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Asian and Pacific Islander 2.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Graven

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

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Graven come from?: * As an English surname, a topographic surname for someone living near a ditch, from Middle Low German grav (“moat, ditch”), from Old Saxon graf, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, the source of grave. * As a Norwegian surname, from Old Norse gróf (“depression, hollow”), from Proto-Germanic *grōbō.
How common is the surname Graven?: 921 people in the United States had the surname Graven in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 335,229 Americans. It ranked 26,492nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Graven?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Graven identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
What type of surname is Graven?: Graven is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Graven getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,045 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 921 in 2010, down 12%.