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The DOUGHERTY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 37,903 829 0.014 140
United States (1880 census) 14,771 389 0.03 295
Change since 1880 +23132 -440 -0.016 -155
Other Countries
Australia 600 2697 0.004 37
United Kingdom 1,744 3300 0.004 38
Top States for DOUGHERTY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 6,953 109 0.057 566
New Jersey 3,122 190 0.037 371
California 2,695 1194 0.008 80
New York 2,428 681 0.013 128
Florida 2,273 865 0.014 142
Top States for DOUGHERTY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 632 141 0.081 807
Pennsylvania 6,953 109 0.057 566
New Jersey 3,122 190 0.037 371
Alaska 133 539 0.021 212
Maryland 974 554 0.018 184

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of DOUGHERTY

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 DOUGHERTY 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 DOUGHERTY 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 DOUGHERTY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 565 1.49
Black/African American 379 1
Mixed Race 352 0.93
Asian/Pacific 159 0.42
Native American/Alaskan 110 0.29
White (Caucasian) 36,341 95.88

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

Meaning of DOUGHERTY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of DOUGHERTY.

Similar names to DOUGHERTY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOUGHERTY.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for DOUGHERTY

The following words are slight variants of DOUGHERTY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.