The DELANY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,735	15490	0.001	6
United States (1880 census)	3,267	1880	0.007	65
Change since 1880	-1532	-13610	-0.006	-59
Other Countries
Australia	287	5417	0.002	18
United Kingdom	321	12226	0.001	7

Top States for DELANY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	194	12792	0.001	6
Pennsylvania	174	8531	0.001	14
New York	127	14627	0.001	7
Florida	125	13910	0.001	8
Texas	119	13394	0.001	6
Top States for DELANY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Washington DC	23	2528	0.004	40
Wyoming	13	5470	0.003	26
Colorado	65	8180	0.002	15
Pennsylvania	174	8531	0.001	14
Wisconsin	74	11639	0.001	14

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

Classification and Origin of DELANY

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 DELANY 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 DELANY 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 DELANY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	87	5.01
White (Hispanic)	37	2.13
Mixed Race	30	1.73
Asian/Pacific	11	0.63
Native American/Alaskan	5	0.29
White (Caucasian)	1,565	90.2

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

Similar names to DELANY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DELANY.

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.