Canavan

At the 2020 census, 3,013 Americans bore the surname Canavan — 10,184th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 99,200.

By the numbers

People: 3,013
Rank: 10,184th
How common: 1 in 99,200
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Ceanndubháin (“descendant of Ceanndubhán”), a personal name composed of the elements ceann (“head”), dubh (“black”) and the diminutive suffix -án.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Canavan described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Canavan

Trudi Canavan (born 1969)Australian writer
Myrtelle Canavan (1879–1953)American physician

People named Canavan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Canavan

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.