The DELANEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	31,236	1027	0.012	116
United States (1880 census)	7,551	795	0.015	151
Change since 1880	+23685	-232	-0.003	-35
Other Countries
Australia	3,147	488	0.019	193
United Kingdom	6,676	946	0.015	145

Top States for DELANEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	2,938	544	0.015	155
California	2,260	1440	0.007	67
Massachusetts	2,098	354	0.033	330
Florida	1,948	1037	0.012	122
Pennsylvania	1,742	735	0.014	142
Top States for DELANEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	2,098	354	0.033	330
Montana	229	375	0.025	254
New Hampshire	303	607	0.025	245
Connecticut	691	508	0.020	203
Vermont	115	892	0.019	189

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

Classification and Origin of DELANEY

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 DELANEY 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 DELANEY 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 DELANEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	503	1.61
Mixed Race	422	1.35
Asian/Pacific	153	0.49
Native American/Alaskan	109	0.35
White (Caucasian)	26,647	85.31
Black/African American	3,402	10.89

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

Similar names to DELANEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DELANEY.

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.