The HARRIGAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,801	5506	0.002	22
United States (1880 census)	2,798	2181	0.006	56
Change since 1880	+3003	-3325	-0.004	-34
Other Countries
Australia	396	4000	0.002	24
United Kingdom	936	5553	0.002	20

Top States for HARRIGAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	946	1940	0.005	50
California	589	4847	0.002	17
Florida	484	4170	0.003	30
New Jersey	359	2602	0.004	43
Massachusetts	349	2534	0.005	55
Top States for HARRIGAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	84	1682	0.011	107
New Hampshire	68	2721	0.006	55
Massachusetts	349	2534	0.005	55
Connecticut	185	2393	0.005	54
Maine	66	3063	0.005	52

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

Classification and Origin of HARRIGAN

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 HARRIGAN 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 HARRIGAN 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 HARRIGAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	718	12.38
White (Hispanic)	180	3.1
Mixed Race	95	1.64
Asian/Pacific	51	0.88
Native American/Alaskan	5	0.09
White (Caucasian)	4,752	81.92

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

Similar names to HARRIGAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HARRIGAN.

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.