The KEEGAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	9,662	3388	0.004	36
United States (1880 census)	3,391	1805	0.007	68
Change since 1880	+6271	-1583	-0.003	-32
Other Countries
Australia	1,123	1471	0.007	69
United Kingdom	3,507	1787	0.008	76

Top States for KEEGAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,343	1285	0.007	71
Massachusetts	844	1013	0.013	133
California	837	3437	0.002	25
New Jersey	678	1268	0.008	81
Florida	642	3046	0.004	40
Top States for KEEGAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	844	1013	0.013	133
Rhode Island	132	1109	0.013	126
Connecticut	377	1047	0.011	111
Maine	108	2005	0.008	85
New Hampshire	100	1870	0.008	81

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

Classification and Origin of KEEGAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the KEEGAN 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 KEEGAN 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 KEEGAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	142	1.47
Mixed Race	106	1.1
Black/African American	64	0.66
Asian/Pacific	50	0.52
Native American/Alaskan	16	0.17
White (Caucasian)	9,284	96.09

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

Similar names to KEEGAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KEEGAN.

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.