The HANNIGAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,212	7297	0.002	16
United States (1880 census)	965	5618	0.002	19
Change since 1880	+3247	-1679	0	-3
Other Countries
Australia	293	5318	0.002	18
United Kingdom	1,205	4501	0.003	26

Top States for HANNIGAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	457	1934	0.007	72
Pennsylvania	427	3503	0.003	35
New York	394	4818	0.002	21
California	288	9054	0.001	9
Illinois	278	4615	0.002	22
Top States for HANNIGAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	108	2065	0.008	85
Massachusetts	457	1934	0.007	72
New Hampshire	80	2335	0.006	65
Vermont	27	3538	0.004	44
Pennsylvania	427	3503	0.003	35

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

Classification and Origin of HANNIGAN

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 HANNIGAN 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 HANNIGAN 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 HANNIGAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	49	1.16
White (Hispanic)	45	1.07
Asian/Pacific	27	0.64
Black/African American	24	0.57
Native American/Alaskan	22	0.52
White (Caucasian)	4,045	96.04

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

Similar names to HANNIGAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HANNIGAN.

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.