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The FEENEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 9,402 3475 0.003 35
United States (1880 census) 2,597 2350 0.005 52
Change since 1880 +6805 -1125 -0.002 -17
Other Countries
Australia 852 1922 0.005 52
United Kingdom 3,549 1764 0.008 77
Top States for FEENEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 1,109 736 0.017 175
New York 1,021 1705 0.005 54
California 751 3811 0.002 22
Pennsylvania 725 1958 0.006 59
New Jersey 708 1217 0.008 84
Top States for FEENEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 251 967 0.020 197
Massachusetts 1,109 736 0.017 175
Rhode Island 164 864 0.016 156
New Jersey 708 1217 0.008 84
Connecticut 274 1511 0.008 80

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

Classification and Origin of FEENEY

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 FEENEY 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 FEENEY 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 FEENEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 129 1.37
Mixed Race 97 1.03
Black/African American 45 0.48
Asian/Pacific 41 0.44
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.16
White (Caucasian) 9,075 96.52

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

Meaning of FEENEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to FEENEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FEENEY.

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 FEENEY

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