The FAHEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	9,118	3580	0.003	34
United States (1880 census)	2,720	2234	0.005	54
Change since 1880	+6398	-1346	-0.002	-20
Other Countries
Australia	1,576	1035	0.01	96
United Kingdom	1,398	3986	0.003	30

Top States for FAHEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,233	656	0.019	194
New York	879	2023	0.005	46
California	748	3833	0.002	22
Illinois	637	1942	0.005	51
Florida	527	3731	0.003	33
Top States for FAHEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,233	656	0.019	194
New Hampshire	124	1519	0.010	100
Minnesota	459	1147	0.009	93
Maine	116	1880	0.009	91
Connecticut	299	1374	0.009	88

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

Classification and Origin of FAHEY

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 FAHEY 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 FAHEY 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 FAHEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	114	1.25
Mixed Race	112	1.23
Asian/Pacific	38	0.42
Black/African American	34	0.37
Native American/Alaskan	14	0.15
White (Caucasian)	8,806	96.58

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

Similar names to FAHEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FAHEY.

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.