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The SHEEDY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,424 11837 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 723 7190 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +1701 -4647 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 1,026 1613 0.006 63
United Kingdom 412 10212 0.001 9
Top States for SHEEDY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 292 6571 0.002 15
Massachusetts 215 3947 0.003 34
Illinois 209 6161 0.002 17
Pennsylvania 149 9891 0.001 12
Florida 146 12138 0.001 9
Top States for SHEEDY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 215 3947 0.003 34
New Hampshire 41 4141 0.003 33
Wisconsin 122 6804 0.002 23
Illinois 209 6161 0.002 17
New York 292 6571 0.002 15

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

Classification and Origin of SHEEDY

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 SHEEDY 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 SHEEDY 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 SHEEDY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 36 1.49
White (Hispanic) 27 1.11
Asian/Pacific 21 0.87
White (Caucasian) 2,335 96.33
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of SHEEDY in historical publications

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

Similar names to SHEEDY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHEEDY.

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 SHEEDY

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