Garvey

11,057 people in the United States were counted with the surname Garvey in the 2020 census, making it the 3,185th most common in the country. That is about one person in 27,000.

By the numbers

People: 11,057
Rank: 3,185th
How common: 1 in 27,000
Per 100,000: 3.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced form of Irish Ó Gairbhshíth (“descendant of Gairbhshíth”), a personal name composed of the elements garbh (“rough, cruel”) and síth (“peace”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.9%
Black, not Hispanic 5.7%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Garvey

Marcus Garvey (1887–1940)Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur
Guy Garvey (born 1974)English singer, songwriter and radio presenter
Rea Garvey (born 1973)Irish singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist

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

Surnames like Garvey

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.