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The CANNEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 835 27235 0 3
United States (1880 census) 387 11792 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +448 -15443 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 38 31941 0 2
United Kingdom 191 16966 0 4
Top States for CANNEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 207 3857 0.003 33
New Hampshire 96 1909 0.008 78
Florida 47 30337 0.000 3
Wisconsin 34 22938 0.001 6
Michigan 33 33259 0.000 3
Top States for CANNEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 96 1909 0.008 78
Massachusetts 207 3857 0.003 33
Vermont 17 4811 0.003 28
Maine 28 5397 0.002 22
Iowa 32 12695 0.001 11

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CANNEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CANNEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CANNEY in Massachusetts than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CANNEY by picking someone at random in New Hampshire than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CANNEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CANNEY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CANNEY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CANNEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 822 98.44
Black/African American 5 0.6
White (Hispanic) 5 0.6
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CANNEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CANNEY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of CANNEY.

Similar names to CANNEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CANNEY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CANNEY

The following words are slight variants of CANNEY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.