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The OMALLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 17,027 1938 0.006 63
United States (1880 census) 451 10495 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +16576 +8557 +0.005 +54
Other Countries
Australia 13 72309 0 1
United Kingdom 280 13318 0.001 6
Top States for OMALLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 1,990 563 0.016 160
Massachusetts 1,789 432 0.028 282
Pennsylvania 1,498 869 0.012 122
California 1,324 2342 0.004 39
New York 1,296 1379 0.007 68
Top States for OMALLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 1,789 432 0.028 282
Illinois 1,990 563 0.016 160
Rhode Island 145 1023 0.014 138
Pennsylvania 1,498 869 0.012 122
New Jersey 926 916 0.011 110

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

Classification and Origin of OMALLEY

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 OMALLEY 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 OMALLEY 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 OMALLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 187 1.1
Mixed Race 174 1.02
Asian/Pacific 89 0.52
Black/African American 41 0.24
Native American/Alaskan 37 0.22
White (Caucasian) 16,499 96.9

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

Meaning of OMALLEY in historical publications

O'MALLEY. An ancient family formerly written 0"Malie, of Morshe Castle, co. Mayo. O'Malley is foolishly gallicised to De Maillet. O'Donovan.

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 OMALLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OMALLEY.

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 OMALLEY

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