Craven

At the 2020 census, 14,810 Americans bore the surname Craven — 2,399th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 20,200.

By the numbers

People: 14,810
Rank: 2,399th
How common: 1 in 20,200
Per 100,000: 5.0

Where the name comes from

From cel-bry-pro; equivalent to Welsh craf + the suffix -an. Compare Cremona.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.1%
Black, not Hispanic 5.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Craven

Wes Craven (1939–2015)American filmmaker
Matt Craven (born 1956)Canadian actor
Elizabeth Craven (1750–1828)British noble
Frank Craven (1881–1945)American film actor, writer, director
Beverley Craven (born 1963)British singer-songwriter
Philip Craven (born 1950)President of the IPC
Dan Craven (born 1983)Namibian racing cyclist
Pauline Marie Armande Craven (1808–1891)French author

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

Surnames like Craven

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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.