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The FRANEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,141 21381 0 4
United States (1880 census) 472 10137 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +669 -11244 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 81 17081 0 5
United Kingdom 257 14094 0.001 6
Top States for FRANEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 144 15494 0.000 4
Maryland 85 6226 0.002 16
Massachusetts 84 8665 0.001 13
Pennsylvania 75 17453 0.001 6
Florida 56 25897 0.000 4
Top States for FRANEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 15 8087 0.002 20
Maryland 85 6226 0.002 16
Massachusetts 84 8665 0.001 13
Nebraska 21 11474 0.001 12
Kentucky 41 7761 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of FRANEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FRANEY 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 FRANEY 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 FRANEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 27 2.37
White (Hispanic) 20 1.75
Mixed Race 6 0.53
White (Caucasian) 1,084 95
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 FRANEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of FRANEY in historical publications

FRANEY. See Freyne.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to FRANEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FRANEY.

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 FRANEY

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