Irving
14,329 people in the United States were counted with the surname Irving in the 2020 census, making it the 2,460th most common in the country. That is about one person in 20,900.
By the numbers
- People
- 14,329
- Rank
- 2,460th
- How common
- 1 in 20,900
- Per 100,000
- 4.8
Where the name comes from
Origin Scottish Gaelic
Variant of the Scottish habitational surname Irvine, probably from a cel word cognate with Welsh ir, yr (“fresh”) + afon (“river”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Irving described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Irving
- Washington Irving (1783–1859)American writer, historian and diplomat
- John Irving (born 1942)American novelist and screenwriter
- Kyrie Irving (born 1992)American basketball player
- David Irving (born 1938)British author and Holocaust denier
- Amy Irving (born 1953)American actress
- Henry Irving (1838–1905)English stage actor of the Victorian era
- George Irving (1874–1961)American actor, director
- Edward Irving (1792–1834)Scottish clergyman
People named Irving with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Irving
Also a first name
Irving has been given to 44,449 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1918. 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.