The HERLIHY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,470	11645	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	300	14277	0.001	6
Change since 1880	+2170	+2632	0	+3
Other Countries
Australia	214	7094	0.001	13
United Kingdom	423	10001	0.001	9

Top States for HERLIHY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	565	1489	0.009	89
New York	343	5235	0.002	18
California	226	10588	0.001	7
Florida	179	9615	0.001	11
Connecticut	137	3058	0.004	40
Top States for HERLIHY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	565	1489	0.009	89
New Hampshire	100	1833	0.008	81
Maine	65	2909	0.005	51
Connecticut	137	3058	0.004	40
Vermont	15	5432	0.002	25

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

Classification and Origin of HERLIHY

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 HERLIHY 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 HERLIHY 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 HERLIHY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	37	1.5
Mixed Race	23	0.93
Asian/Pacific	10	0.4
White (Caucasian)	2,389	96.72
Black/African American	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Similar names to HERLIHY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HERLIHY.

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.