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The DONAHUE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 31,251 1026 0.012 116
United States (1880 census) 7,936 757 0.016 159
Change since 1880 +23315 -269 -0.004 -43
Other Countries
Australia 51 24954 0 3
United Kingdom 76 24979 0 2
Top States for DONAHUE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 3,588 168 0.057 565
Pennsylvania 2,578 434 0.021 210
California 2,201 1457 0.006 65
New York 2,090 792 0.011 110
Florida 1,694 1188 0.011 106
Top States for DONAHUE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 3,588 168 0.057 565
New Hampshire 538 272 0.044 435
Maine 493 468 0.039 387
Rhode Island 383 272 0.037 365
Vermont 212 394 0.035 348

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

Classification and Origin of DONAHUE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 850 2.72
White (Hispanic) 444 1.42
Mixed Race 306 0.98
Native American/Alaskan 225 0.72
Asian/Pacific 125 0.4
White (Caucasian) 29,301 93.76

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

Meaning of DONAHUE in historical publications

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

Similar names to DONAHUE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DONAHUE.

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 DONAHUE

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