The CAVANAGH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,932	7797	0.001	15
United States (1880 census)	2,491	2435	0.005	50
Change since 1880	+1441	-5362	-0.004	-35
Other Countries
Australia	2,363	684	0.014	145
United Kingdom	4,318	1457	0.009	94

Top States for CAVANAGH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	709	2484	0.004	37
California	409	6346	0.001	12
Florida	321	5729	0.002	20
New Jersey	268	3342	0.003	32
Massachusetts	237	3395	0.004	37
Top States for CAVANAGH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	93	1596	0.009	89
Vermont	28	3263	0.005	46
New York	709	2484	0.004	37
Massachusetts	237	3395	0.004	37
Connecticut	121	3497	0.004	36

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

Classification and Origin of CAVANAGH

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 CAVANAGH 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 CAVANAGH 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 CAVANAGH in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	75	1.91
Mixed Race	36	0.92
Asian/Pacific	21	0.53
Black/African American	8	0.2
Native American/Alaskan	6	0.15
White (Caucasian)	3,786	96.29

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

Similar names to CAVANAGH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CAVANAGH.

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.