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The MOONEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 32,953 968 0.012 122
United States (1880 census) 10,764 550 0.022 215
Change since 1880 +22189 -418 -0.01 -93
Other Countries
Australia 2,454 656 0.015 150
United Kingdom 9,211 648 0.02 201
Top States for MOONEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 2,558 650 0.013 135
California 2,116 1560 0.006 62
Pennsylvania 2,011 618 0.016 164
Texas 1,938 1300 0.009 93
Florida 1,799 1145 0.011 113
Top States for MOONEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 311 385 0.030 297
Maine 296 873 0.023 232
New Hampshire 284 661 0.023 230
Mississippi 630 699 0.022 221
West Virginia 393 710 0.022 217

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

Classification and Origin of MOONEY

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 MOONEY 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 MOONEY 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 MOONEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 425 1.29
Mixed Race 415 1.26
Native American/Alaskan 198 0.6
Asian/Pacific 161 0.49
White (Caucasian) 30,445 92.39
Black/African American 1,308 3.97

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

Meaning of MOONEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to MOONEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MOONEY.

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 MOONEY

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