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The HEGARTY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,109 9595 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 248 16460 0 5
Change since 1880 +2861 +6865 +N/A +7
Other Countries
Australia 963 1711 0.006 59
United Kingdom 3,507 1789 0.008 76
Top States for HEGARTY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 612 1404 0.010 96
New York 280 6532 0.001 15
California 256 9677 0.001 8
Pennsylvania 218 6591 0.002 18
New Jersey 184 4958 0.002 22
Top States for HEGARTY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 612 1404 0.010 96
New Hampshire 64 2723 0.005 52
Maine 52 3457 0.004 41
Nebraska 52 4614 0.003 30
Iowa 65 6492 0.002 22

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

Classification and Origin of HEGARTY

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 HEGARTY 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 HEGARTY 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 HEGARTY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 43 1.38
Mixed Race 23 0.74
Asian/Pacific 9 0.29
Black/African American 8 0.26
White (Caucasian) 3,026 97.33
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of HEGARTY in historical publications

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

Similar names to HEGARTY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HEGARTY.

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 HEGARTY

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