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The MCCAUGHEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,535 17059 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 73 38806 0 1
Change since 1880 +1462 +21747 +N/A +5
Other Countries
Australia 161 9223 0.001 10
United Kingdom 1,031 5139 0.002 22
Top States for MCCAUGHEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 165 836 0.016 157
California 154 14854 0.000 5
Massachusetts 112 6786 0.002 18
Pennsylvania 109 12609 0.001 9
New York 107 16343 0.001 6
Top States for MCCAUGHEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 165 836 0.016 157
Montana 23 5871 0.003 25
Iowa 66 6410 0.002 23
Alaska 13 7248 0.002 21
Idaho 23 7486 0.002 18

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

Classification and Origin of MCCAUGHEY

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 MCCAUGHEY 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 MCCAUGHEY 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 MCCAUGHEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 21 1.37
Mixed Race 14 0.91
Asian/Pacific 11 0.72
White (Caucasian) 1,485 96.74
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 MCCAUGHEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of MCCAUGHEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to MCCAUGHEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCCAUGHEY.

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 MCCAUGHEY

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