The GALLIGAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,462	8737	0.001	13
United States (1880 census)	1,324	4303	0.003	26
Change since 1880	+2138	-4434	-0.002	-13
Other Countries
Australia	134	10983	0.001	8
United Kingdom	400	10438	0.001	9

Top States for GALLIGAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	490	4114	0.003	26
Massachusetts	379	2454	0.006	60
Wisconsin	199	4059	0.004	37
California	197	13221	0.001	6
Connecticut	169	2782	0.005	50
Top States for GALLIGAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	129	1260	0.012	123
Massachusetts	379	2454	0.006	60
Connecticut	169	2782	0.005	50
Wisconsin	199	4059	0.004	37
Iowa	81	5732	0.003	28

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

Classification and Origin of GALLIGAN

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 GALLIGAN 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 GALLIGAN 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 GALLIGAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	63	1.82
Mixed Race	28	0.81
Black/African American	25	0.72
Asian/Pacific	20	0.58
Native American/Alaskan	7	0.2
White (Caucasian)	3,319	95.87

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

Similar names to GALLIGAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GALLIGAN.

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.