The HALLIGAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,107	9598	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	843	6272	0.002	17
Change since 1880	+2264	-3326	-0.001	-5
Other Countries
Australia	369	4290	0.002	23
United Kingdom	1,427	3927	0.003	31

Top States for HALLIGAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	289	6581	0.002	15
California	282	9185	0.001	8
Pennsylvania	255	5840	0.002	21
New Jersey	204	4632	0.002	24
Florida	180	10014	0.001	11
Top States for HALLIGAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Iowa	167	2263	0.006	57
Vermont	24	3935	0.004	39
Nebraska	65	3752	0.004	38
South Dakota	26	5013	0.003	34
Connecticut	111	4054	0.003	33

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

Classification and Origin of HALLIGAN

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 HALLIGAN 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 HALLIGAN 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 HALLIGAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	50	1.61
Mixed Race	42	1.35
Native American/Alaskan	19	0.61
Asian/Pacific	14	0.45
Black/African American	13	0.42
White (Caucasian)	2,969	95.56

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

Similar names to HALLIGAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HALLIGAN.

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.