Carver
At the 2020 census, 30,640 Americans bore the surname Carver — 1,124th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 9,755.
By the numbers
- People
- 30,640
- Rank
- 1,124th
- How common
- 1 in 9,755
- Per 100,000
- 10.3
Where the name comes from
From Middle English Carver, Kerver, Kervor, Kervour, Kervoure, Kervere, from Middle English carver, kervere (“carver, wood-cutter, sculptor”). More at carver.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Carver described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Carver
- George Washington Carver (1864–1943)African American botanist and inventor
- Raymond Carver (1938–1988)penman, poet, screenwriter, novelist, prose writer, teacher, short story writer
- Charlie Carver (born 1988)American actor
- Max Carver (born 1988)American actor
- Jordan Carver (born 1986)German model
- Jesse Carver (1911–2003)English footballer and manager
- Steve Carver (1945–2021)American film director and producer
- John Carver (born 1965)English footballer and manager
People named Carver with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Carver
Also a first name
Carver has been given to 3,263 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2018. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
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.