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The O'BEIRNE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 564 37200 0 2
United States (1880 census) 20 73804 0 0
Change since 1880 +544 +36604 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 2 236508 0 0
United Kingdom 36 27011 0 1
Top States for O'BEIRNE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 83 22078 0.000 4
Massachusetts 71 10849 0.001 11
New Jersey 44 22258 0.001 5
California 42 49107 0.000 1
Michigan 33 35874 0.000 3
Top States for O'BEIRNE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 71 10849 0.001 11
Alaska 5 22863 0.001 8
Delaware 5 26569 0.001 6
Minnesota 26 27994 0.001 5
New Jersey 44 22258 0.001 5

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

Classification and Origin of O'BEIRNE

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'BEIRNE 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'BEIRNE 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'BEIRNE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 531 94.15
White (Hispanic) 24 4.26
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of O'BEIRNE in historical publications

O'BEIRNE. An ancient Irish family who have anglicized their name to Byron and Bruin I

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'BEIRNE

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

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'BEIRNE

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