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The HEFFERNAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,532 4940 0.002 24
United States (1880 census) 772 6771 0.002 15
Change since 1880 +5760 +1831 0 +9
Other Countries
Australia 1,962 828 0.012 120
United Kingdom 1,601 3548 0.003 35
Top States for HEFFERNAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 731 2498 0.004 39
Massachusetts 695 1234 0.011 109
California 513 5303 0.002 15
Illinois 460 2700 0.004 37
New Jersey 386 2330 0.005 46
Top States for HEFFERNAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 695 1234 0.011 109
Vermont 49 2055 0.008 80
Connecticut 264 1587 0.008 78
Rhode Island 76 2079 0.007 72
New Hampshire 78 2336 0.006 63

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

Classification and Origin of HEFFERNAN

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 HEFFERNAN 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 HEFFERNAN 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 HEFFERNAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 127 1.94
Mixed Race 68 1.04
Asian/Pacific 59 0.9
Black/African American 17 0.26
Native American/Alaskan 13 0.2
White (Caucasian) 6,248 95.65

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

Meaning of HEFFERNAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to HEFFERNAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HEFFERNAN.

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 HEFFERNAN

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