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The FINEGAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,704 15731 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 1,098 5058 0.002 22
Change since 1880 +606 -10673 -0.001 -16
Other Countries
Australia 116 12515 0.001 7
United Kingdom 479 9133 0.001 10
Top States for FINEGAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 245 5946 0.002 20
New York 197 9272 0.001 10
California 127 17885 0.000 4
Illinois 111 11438 0.001 9
Ohio 106 11721 0.001 9
Top States for FINEGAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 31 4795 0.003 30
Pennsylvania 245 5946 0.002 20
Alaska 10 9645 0.002 16
New Hampshire 16 9277 0.001 13
New Jersey 104 9019 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of FINEGAN

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 FINEGAN 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 FINEGAN 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 FINEGAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 34 2
Black/African American 33 1.94
Mixed Race 16 0.94
White (Caucasian) 1,611 94.54
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of FINEGAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to FINEGAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FINEGAN.

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 FINEGAN

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