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The MACNEILL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,508 17282 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 19 75369 0 0
Change since 1880 +1489 +58087 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 109 13253 0.001 7
United Kingdom 608 7716 0.001 13
Top States for MACNEILL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 269 2959 0.004 42
Florida 157 10696 0.001 10
California 124 17657 0.000 4
New Jersey 108 8339 0.001 13
Pennsylvania 97 13725 0.001 8
Top States for MACNEILL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 269 2959 0.004 42
Maine 42 3945 0.003 33
New Hampshire 34 4526 0.003 28
Rhode Island 17 8163 0.002 16
New Jersey 108 8339 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of MACNEILL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

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 MACNEILL 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 MACNEILL 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 MACNEILL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 26 1.72
Asian/Pacific 11 0.73
Native American/Alaskan 10 0.66
Mixed Race 9 0.6
Black/African American 7 0.46
White (Caucasian) 1,445 95.82

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

Meaning of MACNEILL in historical publications

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

Similar names to MACNEILL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MACNEILL.

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 MACNEILL

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