The DALY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	30,434	1048	0.011	113
United States (1880 census)	10,102	599	0.02	202
Change since 1880	+20332	-449	-0.009	-89
Other Countries
Australia	4,180	354	0.026	256
United Kingdom	12,258	478	0.027	267

Top States for DALY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	3,721	391	0.020	196
California	2,614	1184	0.008	77
Massachusetts	2,613	253	0.041	412
Florida	2,240	842	0.014	140
New Jersey	2,230	292	0.027	265
Top States for DALY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	2,613	253	0.041	412
Vermont	181	491	0.030	297
Connecticut	971	305	0.029	285
New Jersey	2,230	292	0.027	265
New Hampshire	269	664	0.022	218

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

Classification and Origin of DALY

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 DALY 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 DALY 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 DALY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	968	3.18
White (Hispanic)	657	2.16
Mixed Race	304	1
Asian/Pacific	189	0.62
Native American/Alaskan	58	0.19
White (Caucasian)	28,258	92.85

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

Similar names to DALY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DALY.

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.