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The DOHERTY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 26,978 1191 0.01 100
United States (1880 census) 6,342 960 0.013 127
Change since 1880 +20636 -231 -0.003 -27
Other Countries
Australia 3,919 377 0.024 240
United Kingdom 18,622 296 0.041 405
Top States for DOHERTY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 5,595 68 0.088 881
New York 2,646 585 0.014 139
California 1,877 1656 0.006 55
Florida 1,564 1259 0.010 98
New Jersey 1,429 504 0.017 170
Top States for DOHERTY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 5,595 68 0.088 881
New Hampshire 584 234 0.047 473
Maine 419 551 0.033 329
Delaware 166 759 0.021 212
Connecticut 627 534 0.018 184

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

Classification and Origin of DOHERTY

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 DOHERTY 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 DOHERTY 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 DOHERTY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 343 1.27
Mixed Race 278 1.03
Black/African American 205 0.76
Asian/Pacific 124 0.46
Native American/Alaskan 57 0.21
White (Caucasian) 25,972 96.27

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

Meaning of DOHERTY in historical publications

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

Similar names to DOHERTY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOHERTY.

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 DOHERTY

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