The FENNESSY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	762	29261	0	3
United States (1880 census)	123	27267	0	2
Change since 1880	+639	-1994	+N/A	+1
Other Countries
Australia	187	8007	0.001	11
United Kingdom	258	14036	0.001	6

Top States for FENNESSY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	143	10514	0.001	8
Massachusetts	73	8571	0.001	11
California	70	25347	0.000	2
Florida	53	23963	0.000	3
Illinois	45	23014	0.000	4
Top States for FENNESSY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	23	5376	0.002	22
Montana	11	10283	0.001	12
Massachusetts	73	8571	0.001	11
New Hampshire	12	9940	0.001	10
Maine	12	9159	0.001	9

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

Classification and Origin of FENNESSY

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 FENNESSY 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 FENNESSY 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 FENNESSY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	704	92.39
White (Hispanic)	26	3.41
Mixed Race	24	3.15
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Black/African American	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Similar names to FENNESSY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FENNESSY.

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.