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The CARRAGHER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 449 44997 0 2
United States (1880 census) 81 35936 0 2
Change since 1880 +368 -9061 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 108 13420 0.001 7
United Kingdom 516 8654 0.001 11
Top States for CARRAGHER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 82 20088 0.000 4
New Jersey 65 13357 0.001 8
Florida 39 34311 0.000 2
Massachusetts 34 19206 0.001 5
Connecticut 33 12343 0.001 10
Top States for CARRAGHER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Connecticut 33 12343 0.001 10
New Hampshire 11 11426 0.001 9
New Jersey 65 13357 0.001 8
Massachusetts 34 19206 0.001 5
Nevada 9 21129 0.000 5

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

Classification and Origin of CARRAGHER

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 CARRAGHER 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 CARRAGHER 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 CARRAGHER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 432 96.21
White (Hispanic) 7 1.56
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of CARRAGHER in historical publications

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

Similar names to CARRAGHER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARRAGHER.

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 CARRAGHER

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