The HEFFERAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	415	47939	0	1
United States (1880 census)	325	13464	0.001	7
Change since 1880	+90	-34475	+N/A	-6
Other Countries
Australia	97	14574	0.001	6
United Kingdom	96	24143	0	2

Top States for HEFFERAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	85	14059	0.001	9
Pennsylvania	71	19158	0.001	6
Minnesota	30	24197	0.001	6
Illinois	24	48694	0.000	2
New Jersey	23	39581	0.000	3
Top States for HEFFERAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	85	14059	0.001	9
New Hampshire	10	14183	0.001	8
Minnesota	30	24197	0.001	6
Pennsylvania	71	19158	0.001	6
Connecticut	19	23668	0.001	6

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of HEFFERAN

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 HEFFERAN 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 HEFFERAN 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 HEFFERAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	413	99.52
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	0
Black/African American	Less than 100	Insignificant
Mixed Race	Less than 100	0
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	0
White (Hispanic)	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Similar names to HEFFERAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HEFFERAN.

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.