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The DELANEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 31,236 1027 0.012 116
United States (1880 census) 7,551 795 0.015 151
Change since 1880 +23685 -232 -0.003 -35
Other Countries
Australia 3,147 488 0.019 193
United Kingdom 6,676 946 0.015 145
Top States for DELANEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 2,938 544 0.015 155
California 2,260 1440 0.007 67
Massachusetts 2,098 354 0.033 330
Florida 1,948 1037 0.012 122
Pennsylvania 1,742 735 0.014 142
Top States for DELANEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 2,098 354 0.033 330
Montana 229 375 0.025 254
New Hampshire 303 607 0.025 245
Connecticut 691 508 0.020 203
Vermont 115 892 0.019 189

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

Classification and Origin of DELANEY

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 DELANEY 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 DELANEY 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 DELANEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 503 1.61
Mixed Race 422 1.35
Asian/Pacific 153 0.49
Native American/Alaskan 109 0.35
White (Caucasian) 26,647 85.31
Black/African American 3,402 10.89

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

Meaning of DELANEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to DELANEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DELANEY.

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 DELANEY

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