The CLEARY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	15,685	2120	0.006	58
United States (1880 census)	3,470	1760	0.007	69
Change since 1880	+12215	-360	-0.001	-11
Other Countries
Australia	2,541	627	0.016	155
United Kingdom	4,405	1425	0.01	96

Top States for CLEARY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,766	977	0.009	93
California	1,235	2483	0.004	36
Massachusetts	1,128	746	0.018	178
Florida	1,044	1918	0.007	65
Pennsylvania	917	1554	0.007	75
Top States for CLEARY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	115	869	0.019	189
Massachusetts	1,128	746	0.018	178
Connecticut	571	623	0.017	168
Delaware	108	1254	0.014	138
Maine	153	1536	0.012	120

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of CLEARY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	372	2.37
White (Hispanic)	227	1.45
Mixed Race	162	1.03
Asian/Pacific	66	0.42
Native American/Alaskan	30	0.19
White (Caucasian)	14,829	94.54

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

Similar names to CLEARY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CLEARY.

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.