The COONEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	12,136	2728	0.004	45
United States (1880 census)	4,897	1265	0.01	98
Change since 1880	+7239	-1463	-0.006	-53
Other Countries
Australia	1,359	1215	0.008	83
United Kingdom	3,355	1856	0.007	73

Top States for COONEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,217	1414	0.006	64
California	1,030	2893	0.003	30
Pennsylvania	977	1386	0.008	80
Massachusetts	883	959	0.014	139
Florida	840	2313	0.005	53
Top States for COONEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	200	651	0.019	191
Massachusetts	883	959	0.014	139
Montana	110	915	0.012	122
New Hampshire	134	1397	0.011	108
Connecticut	349	1144	0.010	102

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

Classification and Origin of COONEY

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 COONEY 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 COONEY 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 COONEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	312	2.57
White (Hispanic)	170	1.4
Mixed Race	129	1.06
Asian/Pacific	49	0.4
Native American/Alaskan	34	0.28
White (Caucasian)	11,443	94.29

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

Similar names to COONEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COONEY.

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.