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The GALLIGHER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 332 57406 0 1
United States (1880 census) 942 5736 0.002 19
Change since 1880 -610 -51670 +N/A -18
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 2 35077 0 0
Top States for GALLIGHER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 39 15353 0.001 6
Ohio 30 35316 0.000 3
Florida 26 51227 0.000 2
Texas 25 41477 0.000 1
Pennsylvania 24 50926 0.000 2
Top States for GALLIGHER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 9 13653 0.001 7
Indiana 39 15353 0.001 6
West Virginia 9 12472 0.000 5
Oklahoma 17 16518 0.000 5
Oregon 14 25794 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of GALLIGHER

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the GALLIGHER surname.

Ethnic distribution of GALLIGHER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 315 94.88
White (Hispanic) 7 2.11
Mixed Race 6 1.81
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

GALLIGHER is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of GALLIGHER in historical publications

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

Similar names to GALLIGHER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GALLIGHER.

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 GALLIGHER

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