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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

'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.

Meaning of FAHEY in historical publications

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

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.

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

Potential typos for FAHEY

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