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The O' KEEFE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 16,829 1966 0.006 62
United States (1880 census) 923 5837 0.002 18
Change since 1880 +15906 +3871 +0.004 +44
Other Countries
Australia 94 14973 0.001 6
United Kingdom 306 12587 0.001 7
Top States for O' KEEFE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,909 853 0.010 101
Massachusetts 1,754 423 0.028 276
California 1,391 2158 0.004 41
Florida 1,130 1718 0.007 71
New Jersey 962 845 0.011 114
Top States for O' KEEFE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 1,754 423 0.028 276
New Hampshire 217 838 0.018 176
Connecticut 577 592 0.017 169
Vermont 89 1160 0.015 146
Rhode Island 148 962 0.014 141

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

Classification and Origin of O' KEEFE

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 O' KEEFE 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 O' KEEFE 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 O' KEEFE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 298 1.77
Mixed Race 188 1.12
Asian/Pacific 84 0.5
Black/African American 57 0.34
Native American/Alaskan 45 0.27
White (Caucasian) 16,156 96

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

Meaning of O' KEEFE in historical publications

O'KEEFE. This ancient Mnnster sept derive '• from Art Cacmh— the last two letters being pronounced in Irish as F, or rather as V — who was himself the son of Finguiue, King of Munster, whose death in 902 the Four Masters record, as they do that of Ceallach O'Cacmh in lOGo." D'Alton.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to O' KEEFE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as O' KEEFE.

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 O' KEEFE

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