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The HERLIHY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,470 11645 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 300 14277 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +2170 +2632 0 +3
Other Countries
Australia 214 7094 0.001 13
United Kingdom 423 10001 0.001 9
Top States for HERLIHY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 565 1489 0.009 89
New York 343 5235 0.002 18
California 226 10588 0.001 7
Florida 179 9615 0.001 11
Connecticut 137 3058 0.004 40
Top States for HERLIHY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 565 1489 0.009 89
New Hampshire 100 1833 0.008 81
Maine 65 2909 0.005 51
Connecticut 137 3058 0.004 40
Vermont 15 5432 0.002 25

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

Classification and Origin of HERLIHY

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 HERLIHY 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 HERLIHY 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 HERLIHY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 37 1.5
Mixed Race 23 0.93
Asian/Pacific 10 0.4
White (Caucasian) 2,389 96.72
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 HERLIHY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of HERLIHY in historical publications

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

Similar names to HERLIHY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HERLIHY.

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 HERLIHY

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