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The MILLIGAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 21,887 1497 0.008 81
United States (1880 census) 4,726 1322 0.009 95
Change since 1880 +17161 -175 -0.001 -14
Other Countries
Australia 1,114 1488 0.007 68
United Kingdom 6,345 994 0.014 138
Top States for MILLIGAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,735 1434 0.008 83
California 1,656 1960 0.005 49
Florida 1,250 1651 0.008 78
Ohio 1,195 1127 0.011 105
Pennsylvania 1,020 1424 0.008 83
Top States for MILLIGAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 178 756 0.023 227
Oklahoma 713 653 0.021 207
South Carolina 728 902 0.018 181
Arkansas 477 740 0.018 178
Tennessee 833 1065 0.015 146

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

Classification and Origin of MILLIGAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MILLIGAN 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 MILLIGAN 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 MILLIGAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 488 2.23
Mixed Race 370 1.69
Native American/Alaskan 190 0.87
Asian/Pacific 70 0.32
White (Caucasian) 18,265 83.45
Black/African American 2,506 11.45

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

Meaning of MILLIGAN in historical publications

MILLIGAN.

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 MILLIGAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MILLIGAN.

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 MILLIGAN

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