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The MCKEON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,255 4503 0.003 27
United States (1880 census) 75 37757 0 2
Change since 1880 +7180 +33254 +N/A +25
Other Countries
Australia 713 2272 0.004 44
United Kingdom 861 5927 0.002 19
Top States for MCKEON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,215 1482 0.006 64
California 652 4435 0.002 19
Massachusetts 652 1376 0.010 103
New Jersey 571 1567 0.007 68
Pennsylvania 552 2740 0.004 45
Top States for MCKEON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Connecticut 417 961 0.012 122
Massachusetts 652 1376 0.010 103
Rhode Island 75 2171 0.007 72
New Hampshire 85 2245 0.007 69
New Jersey 571 1567 0.007 68

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

Classification and Origin of MCKEON

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 MCKEON 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 MCKEON 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 MCKEON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 111 1.53
Mixed Race 68 0.94
Asian/Pacific 42 0.58
Black/African American 42 0.58
Native American/Alaskan 13 0.18
White (Caucasian) 6,979 96.2

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

Meaning of MCKEON in historical publications

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

Similar names to MCKEON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCKEON.

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 MCKEON

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