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The HENNESY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 416 47838 0 1
United States (1880 census) 1,118 4972 0.002 22
Change since 1880 -702 -42866 +N/A -21
Other Countries
Australia 6 130251 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HENNESY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oklahoma 46 9078 0.001 13
Texas 44 31271 0.000 2
California 24 87978 0.000 1
Pennsylvania 24 57975 0.000 2
Illinois 23 58129 0.000 2
Top States for HENNESY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oklahoma 46 9078 0.001 13
Vermont 3 29332 0.000 5
Iowa 13 29028 0.000 4
Colorado 19 28134 0.000 4
Minnesota 21 36749 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of HENNESY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the HENNESY surname.

Ethnic distribution of HENNESY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 327 78.61
Black/African American 71 17.07
Asian/Pacific 7 1.68
Mixed Race 6 1.44
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

HENNESY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of HENNESY in historical publications

HENNESY. See O'Hennesy.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to HENNESY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HENNESY.

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 HENNESY

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