The DONNELLY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	30,919	1036	0.011	115
United States (1880 census)	9,223	650	0.018	184
Change since 1880	+21696	-386	-0.007	-69
Other Countries
Australia	3,813	388	0.023	233
United Kingdom	18,193	305	0.04	396

Top States for DONNELLY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	3,830	386	0.020	202
Pennsylvania	2,737	397	0.022	223
New Jersey	2,428	275	0.029	289
California	2,288	1386	0.007	68
Florida	2,053	940	0.013	128
Top States for DONNELLY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	393	251	0.037	375
Massachusetts	2,020	358	0.032	318
New Jersey	2,428	275	0.029	289
New Hampshire	333	521	0.027	269
Delaware	192	657	0.025	245

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

Classification and Origin of DONNELLY

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 DONNELLY 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 DONNELLY 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 DONNELLY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	498	1.61
Black/African American	349	1.13
Mixed Race	318	1.03
Asian/Pacific	155	0.5
Native American/Alaskan	80	0.26
White (Caucasian)	29,515	95.46

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

Similar names to DONNELLY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DONNELLY.

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.