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The HENNESSEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,036 4076 0.003 30
United States (1880 census) 1,776 3322 0.004 36
Change since 1880 +6260 -754 -0.001 -6
Other Countries
Australia 405 3896 0.002 25
United Kingdom 1,678 3417 0.004 37
Top States for HENNESSEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 957 890 0.015 151
New York 688 2688 0.004 36
Pennsylvania 546 2713 0.004 44
Florida 514 3862 0.003 32
California 504 5433 0.001 15
Top States for HENNESSEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 95 1084 0.016 156
Massachusetts 957 890 0.015 151
New Hampshire 178 1049 0.014 144
Connecticut 390 1025 0.011 115
Maine 141 1633 0.011 111

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

Classification and Origin of HENNESSEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HENNESSEY 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 HENNESSEY 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 HENNESSEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 109 1.36
Mixed Race 88 1.1
Black/African American 69 0.86
Asian/Pacific 47 0.58
Native American/Alaskan 14 0.17
White (Caucasian) 7,709 95.93

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

Meaning of HENNESSEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to HENNESSEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HENNESSEY.

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 HENNESSEY

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