The MONAHAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	15,058	2213	0.006	56
United States (1880 census)	4,443	1401	0.009	89
Change since 1880	+10615	-812	-0.003	-33
Other Countries
Australia	432	3663	0.003	26
United Kingdom	704	6887	0.002	15

Top States for MONAHAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,711	1029	0.009	90
Massachusetts	1,488	534	0.023	234
California	1,152	2679	0.003	34
Pennsylvania	1,087	1281	0.009	89
New Jersey	1,077	771	0.013	128
Top States for MONAHAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,488	534	0.023	234
New Hampshire	259	719	0.021	210
Rhode Island	195	713	0.019	186
Vermont	81	1339	0.013	133
New Jersey	1,077	771	0.013	128

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

Classification and Origin of MONAHAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	261	1.73
Mixed Race	114	0.76
Asian/Pacific	80	0.53
Native American/Alaskan	50	0.33
Black/African American	27	0.18
White (Caucasian)	14,526	96.47

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

Similar names to MONAHAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MONAHAN.

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.