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The CARNEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 32,282 984 0.012 120
United States (1880 census) 10,265 584 0.021 205
Change since 1880 +22017 -400 -0.009 -85
Other Countries
Australia 1,286 1278 0.008 79
United Kingdom 4,580 1364 0.01 100
Top States for CARNEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 2,663 618 0.014 140
California 2,253 1453 0.007 67
Pennsylvania 2,102 574 0.017 171
Florida 1,874 1088 0.012 117
Massachusetts 1,718 468 0.027 271
Top States for CARNEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 318 350 0.041 406
Maine 345 736 0.027 271
Massachusetts 1,718 468 0.027 271
New Hampshire 295 629 0.024 239
Tennessee 1,248 713 0.022 219

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

Classification and Origin of CARNEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CARNEY 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 CARNEY 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 CARNEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 507 1.57
Mixed Race 404 1.25
Native American/Alaskan 310 0.96
Asian/Pacific 161 0.5
White (Caucasian) 28,189 87.32
Black/African American 2,708 8.39

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

Meaning of CARNEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to CARNEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARNEY.

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 CARNEY

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