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The RAFFERTY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 9,077 3595 0.003 34
United States (1880 census) 2,983 2053 0.006 60
Change since 1880 +6094 -1542 -0.003 -26
Other Countries
Australia 775 2093 0.005 47
United Kingdom 5,780 1088 0.013 126
Top States for RAFFERTY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,106 1585 0.006 58
Pennsylvania 831 1710 0.007 68
California 665 4250 0.002 20
Florida 537 3700 0.003 34
Illinois 515 2402 0.004 41
Top States for RAFFERTY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 124 1538 0.010 100
Massachusetts 468 1864 0.007 74
North Dakota 46 2181 0.007 72
Pennsylvania 831 1710 0.007 68
Kentucky 244 2172 0.006 60

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

Classification and Origin of RAFFERTY

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 RAFFERTY 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 RAFFERTY 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 RAFFERTY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 110 1.21
Mixed Race 65 0.72
Asian/Pacific 45 0.5
Black/African American 37 0.41
Native American/Alaskan 25 0.28
White (Caucasian) 8,795 96.89

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

Meaning of RAFFERTY in historical publications

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

Similar names to RAFFERTY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RAFFERTY.

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 RAFFERTY

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