The GALLAHER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,056	7560	0.002	15
United States (1880 census)	1,984	2999	0.004	40
Change since 1880	+2072	-4561	-0.002	-25
Other Countries
Australia	189	7924	0.001	12
United Kingdom	159	18877	0	3

Top States for GALLAHER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	444	1934	0.008	78
Pennsylvania	405	3806	0.003	33
California	317	8564	0.001	9
Ohio	311	4535	0.003	27
Florida	196	9611	0.001	12
Top States for GALLAHER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	444	1934	0.008	78
West Virginia	103	2314	0.006	57
Washington	195	3874	0.003	33
Pennsylvania	405	3806	0.003	33
Ohio	311	4535	0.003	27

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

Classification and Origin of GALLAHER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	116	2.86
Mixed Race	67	1.65
White (Hispanic)	57	1.41
Asian/Pacific	41	1.01
Native American/Alaskan	24	0.59
White (Caucasian)	3,751	92.48

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

Similar names to GALLAHER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GALLAHER.

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.