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The CARNAHAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,177 4537 0.003 27
United States (1880 census) 1,937 3054 0.004 39
Change since 1880 +5240 -1483 -0.001 -12
Other Countries
Australia 17 58492 0 1
United Kingdom 31 27403 0 1
Top States for CARNAHAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 661 2111 0.006 58
Pennsylvania 622 2456 0.005 51
California 595 4869 0.002 18
Indiana 424 1824 0.007 70
Texas 365 5557 0.002 18
Top States for CARNAHAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 42 1441 0.009 85
Indiana 424 1824 0.007 70
Iowa 183 2083 0.006 63
Oregon 201 2156 0.006 59
Ohio 661 2111 0.006 58

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

Classification and Origin of CARNAHAN

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 CARNAHAN 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 CARNAHAN 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 CARNAHAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 114 1.59
Mixed Race 67 0.93
Asian/Pacific 36 0.5
Black/African American 36 0.5
Native American/Alaskan 30 0.42
White (Caucasian) 6,894 96.06

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

Meaning of CARNAHAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to CARNAHAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARNAHAN.

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 CARNAHAN

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