Ogilvie

Ogilvie is the 9,534th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,262 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 91,600.

By the numbers

People: 3,262
Rank: 9,534th
How common: 1 in 91,600
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

From the toponym Ogilvie Glen in Scotland. The name is of xpi origin. The first element is either from cel-bry-pro *ʉxel (“high, elevated”), or else *ogel (“a ridge”). The second element the place-naming suffix -fa.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.6%
Black, not Hispanic 15.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

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.