Jarvis

33,745 people in the United States were counted with the surname Jarvis in the 2020 census, making it the 1,017th most common in the country. That is about one person in 8,858.

By the numbers

People: 33,745
Rank: 1,017th
How common: 1 in 8,858
Per 100,000: 11.3

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

A surname derived from a Middle English form of Gervase.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.3%
Black, not Hispanic 8.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Jarvis

Gregory Jarvis (1944–1986)American astronaut
Frank Jarvis (1878–1933)American athlete, Olympic medalist
Matt Jarvis (born 1986)English association football player
Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929–2020)American philosopher
Piret Järvis (born 1984)Estonian singer
John Arthur Jarvis (1872–1933)British swimmer and water polo player
Cosmo Jarvis (born 1989)American actor and musician
Seth Jarvis (born 2002)Canadian ice hockey player

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

Surnames like Jarvis

Also a first name

Jarvis has been given to 17,843 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 1989. 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.