The GERAGHTY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,231	9272	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	394	11626	0.001	8
Change since 1880	+2837	+2354	0	+4
Other Countries
Australia	649	2498	0.004	40
United Kingdom	2,132	2804	0.005	46

Top States for GERAGHTY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	493	3629	0.003	26
Illinois	290	4139	0.002	23
New Jersey	284	3136	0.003	34
Massachusetts	262	3050	0.004	41
California	251	9712	0.001	7
Top States for GERAGHTY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alaska	26	3248	0.004	41
Massachusetts	262	3050	0.004	41
New Jersey	284	3136	0.003	34
Rhode Island	35	4116	0.003	33
New Hampshire	39	4100	0.003	32

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

Classification and Origin of GERAGHTY

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 GERAGHTY 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 GERAGHTY 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 GERAGHTY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	45	1.39
Mixed Race	36	1.11
Asian/Pacific	14	0.43
Black/African American	8	0.25
Native American/Alaskan	7	0.22
White (Caucasian)	3,121	96.6

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

Similar names to GERAGHTY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GERAGHTY.

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.