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The FLAHERTY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 17,513 1881 0.006 65
United States (1880 census) 4,176 1479 0.008 84
Change since 1880 +13337 -402 -0.002 -19
Other Countries
Australia 855 1917 0.005 52
United Kingdom 3,310 1883 0.007 72
Top States for FLAHERTY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 3,101 202 0.049 488
New York 1,397 1213 0.007 74
California 1,354 2199 0.004 40
Pennsylvania 1,289 989 0.010 105
Florida 963 2001 0.006 60
Top States for FLAHERTY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 3,101 202 0.049 488
Maine 506 431 0.040 397
New Hampshire 222 801 0.018 180
Connecticut 529 654 0.016 155
Rhode Island 131 1107 0.012 125

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

Classification and Origin of FLAHERTY

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 FLAHERTY 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 FLAHERTY 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 FLAHERTY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 263 1.5
Mixed Race 172 0.98
Asian/Pacific 81 0.46
Black/African American 51 0.29
Native American/Alaskan 32 0.18
White (Caucasian) 16,918 96.6

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

Meaning of FLAHERTY in historical publications

(origin: Celtic.) A man of chieftain-like exploits. From flaith, a lord or chief, and oirbheartach, noble-deeded; the man of noble deeds.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to FLAHERTY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FLAHERTY.

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 FLAHERTY

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