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The FITZGERALD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 73,522 390 0.027 272
United States (1880 census) 73 38774 0 1
Change since 1880 +73449 +38384 +N/A +271
Other Countries
Australia 7,878 158 0.048 482
United Kingdom 11,482 523 0.025 250
Top States for FITZGERALD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 5,968 222 0.031 314
Massachusetts 5,861 66 0.092 923
California 5,321 570 0.016 157
Virginia 4,395 141 0.062 621
Florida 4,259 412 0.027 266
Top States for FITZGERALD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 5,861 66 0.092 923
Vermont 498 99 0.082 818
Virginia 4,395 141 0.062 621
New Hampshire 744 167 0.060 602
Connecticut 1,782 123 0.052 523

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

Classification and Origin of FITZGERALD

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 FITZGERALD 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 FITZGERALD 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 FITZGERALD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 941 1.28
Asian/Pacific 360 0.49
Native American/Alaskan 235 0.32
White (Caucasian) 64,721 88.03
Black/African American 6,205 8.44
White (Hispanic) 1,051 1.43

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

Meaning of FITZGERALD in historical publications

FITZGERALD.* In the Description of

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to FITZGERALD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FITZGERALD.

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 FITZGERALD

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