The DONNELLAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,492	17426	0.001	6
United States (1880 census)	115	28690	0	2
Change since 1880	+1377	+11264	+N/A	+4
Other Countries
Australia	530	3043	0.003	32
United Kingdom	580	8007	0.001	13

Top States for DONNELLAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	266	3243	0.004	42
New York	217	8809	0.001	11
California	111	20941	0.000	3
Florida	110	15647	0.001	7
Illinois	92	14254	0.001	7
Top States for DONNELLAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	266	3243	0.004	42
Maine	23	6582	0.002	18
Washington DC	8	6476	0.001	14
West Virginia	25	6006	0.001	14
New Hampshire	17	8679	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 DONNELLAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DONNELLAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DONNELLAN in Massachusetts than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DONNELLAN by picking someone at random in Massachusetts than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DONNELLAN

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 DONNELLAN 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 DONNELLAN 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 DONNELLAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	37	2.48
Mixed Race	15	1.01
Black/African American	7	0.47
Asian/Pacific	6	0.4
White (Caucasian)	1,427	95.64
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	0

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

Similar names to DONNELLAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DONNELLAN.

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.