Garvin

At the 2020 census, 12,603 Americans bore the surname Garvin — 2,783rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 23,700.

By the numbers

People: 12,603
Rank: 2,783rd
How common: 1 in 23,700
Per 100,000: 4.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 65.7%
Black, not Hispanic 25.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Garvin

Anita Garvin (1907–1994)American actress

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

Surnames like Garvin

Also a first name

Garvin has been given to 2,424 American babies as a first name since 1894, peaking in 1921. 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.