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The GREANEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,361 18656 0 5
United States (1880 census) 115 28687 0 2
Change since 1880 +1246 +10031 +N/A +3
Other Countries
Australia 96 14817 0.001 6
United Kingdom 389 10638 0.001 8
Top States for GREANEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 212 4074 0.003 33
California 209 12137 0.001 6
New York 170 11264 0.001 9
New Jersey 106 9318 0.001 13
Illinois 80 16513 0.001 6
Top States for GREANEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 212 4074 0.003 33
Maine 35 4878 0.003 27
New Hampshire 22 7048 0.002 18
Connecticut 51 9056 0.001 15
Vermont 8 9821 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of GREANEY

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 GREANEY 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 GREANEY 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 GREANEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 25 1.84
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.66
Mixed Race 7 0.51
White (Caucasian) 1,311 96.33
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of GREANEY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GREANEY.

Similar names to GREANEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GREANEY.

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 GREANEY

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