The SHEAHAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,636	11060	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	735	7091	0.001	15
Change since 1880	+1901	-3969	0	-5
Other Countries
Australia	587	2770	0.004	36
United Kingdom	317	12320	0.001	7

Top States for SHEAHAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Illinois	336	3865	0.003	27
Wisconsin	282	2542	0.005	53
New York	197	9770	0.001	10
California	193	12981	0.001	6
Florida	148	12137	0.001	9
Top States for SHEAHAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wisconsin	282	2542	0.005	53
Illinois	336	3865	0.003	27
New Hampshire	31	5263	0.003	25
Colorado	105	5237	0.002	24
Kansas	56	5973	0.002	21

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of SHEAHAN

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 SHEAHAN 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 SHEAHAN 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 SHEAHAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	28	1.06
White (Hispanic)	26	0.99
Asian/Pacific	14	0.53
Native American/Alaskan	13	0.49
Black/African American	8	0.3
White (Caucasian)	2,547	96.62

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

Similar names to SHEAHAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHEAHAN.

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.