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The MACAULEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,711 15676 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 281 14991 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +1430 -685 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 300 5220 0.002 18
United Kingdom 919 5623 0.002 20
Top States for MACAULEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 170 9515 0.001 9
California 160 13171 0.000 5
Massachusetts 138 5136 0.002 22
New Jersey 127 6480 0.002 15
Michigan 120 8786 0.001 12
Top States for MACAULEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 33 2615 0.005 54
Oregon 75 4905 0.002 22
Massachusetts 138 5136 0.002 22
New Hampshire 26 5227 0.002 21
Maryland 85 5764 0.002 16

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

Classification and Origin of MACAULEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 186 10.87
Mixed Race 41 2.4
White (Hispanic) 22 1.29
Asian/Pacific 20 1.17
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.41
White (Caucasian) 1,435 83.87

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

Meaning of MACAULEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to MACAULEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MACAULEY.

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 MACAULEY

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