The DOLAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	27,252	1179	0.01	101
United States (1880 census)	10,727	551	0.021	215
Change since 1880	+16525	-628	-0.011	-114
Other Countries
Australia	1,063	1555	0.007	65
United Kingdom	6,797	928	0.015	148

Top States for DOLAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	2,801	560	0.015	148
Massachusetts	2,081	349	0.033	328
California	2,033	1567	0.006	60
Pennsylvania	1,966	610	0.016	160
Florida	1,758	1131	0.011	110
Top States for DOLAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	2,081	349	0.033	328
Rhode Island	290	411	0.028	277
New Hampshire	299	596	0.024	242
New Jersey	1,723	408	0.020	205
Vermont	122	805	0.020	200

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

Classification and Origin of DOLAN

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 DOLAN 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 DOLAN 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 DOLAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	398	1.46
Mixed Race	267	0.98
Asian/Pacific	164	0.6
Black/African American	90	0.33
Native American/Alaskan	87	0.32
White (Caucasian)	26,249	96.32

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

Similar names to DOLAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOLAN.

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.