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The HORGAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,666 8312 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 705 7312 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +2961 -1000 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 461 3461 0.003 28
United Kingdom 1,431 3920 0.003 31
Top States for HORGAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 747 1204 0.012 118
New York 339 5818 0.002 18
California 310 8686 0.001 9
Florida 245 7912 0.002 15
Pennsylvania 245 6330 0.002 20
Top States for HORGAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 747 1204 0.012 118
Delaware 64 2194 0.008 82
New Hampshire 91 2132 0.007 74
Rhode Island 32 5002 0.003 31
North Dakota 19 6146 0.003 30

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

Classification and Origin of HORGAN

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 HORGAN 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 HORGAN 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 HORGAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 147 4.01
White (Hispanic) 62 1.69
Mixed Race 52 1.42
White (Caucasian) 3,386 92.36
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of HORGAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to HORGAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HORGAN.

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 HORGAN

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