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The GAUGHAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,321 9050 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 481 9988 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +2840 +938 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 109 13235 0.001 7
United Kingdom 1,496 3768 0.003 33
Top States for GAUGHAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 606 2430 0.005 49
Illinois 327 3857 0.003 26
Massachusetts 248 3403 0.004 39
New York 245 7675 0.001 13
New Jersey 200 4685 0.002 24
Top States for GAUGHAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 606 2430 0.005 49
Massachusetts 248 3403 0.004 39
New Hampshire 38 4277 0.003 31
Illinois 327 3857 0.003 26
Delaware 19 6796 0.002 24

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

Classification and Origin of GAUGHAN

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 GAUGHAN 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 GAUGHAN 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 GAUGHAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 31 0.93
Mixed Race 24 0.72
Asian/Pacific 18 0.54
White (Caucasian) 3,235 97.41
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 GAUGHAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of GAUGHAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to GAUGHAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAUGHAN.

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 GAUGHAN

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