The IRELAND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	14,168	2342	0.005	52
United States (1880 census)	4,727	1321	0.009	95
Change since 1880	+9441	-1021	-0.004	-43
Other Countries
Australia	3,060	505	0.019	187
United Kingdom	8,687	700	0.019	189

Top States for IRELAND by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,093	2757	0.003	32
Florida	931	2127	0.006	58
New York	663	2785	0.003	35
Michigan	650	1659	0.007	65
Pennsylvania	650	2246	0.005	53
Top States for IRELAND by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	618	337	0.048	485
Idaho	169	960	0.013	131
New Hampshire	159	1178	0.013	129
Alaska	70	1067	0.011	112
South Dakota	84	1081	0.011	111

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

Classification and Origin of IRELAND

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 IRELAND 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 IRELAND 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 IRELAND in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	903	6.37
Mixed Race	196	1.38
White (Hispanic)	170	1.2
Native American/Alaskan	72	0.51
Asian/Pacific	45	0.32
White (Caucasian)	12,782	90.22

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

Similar names to IRELAND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as IRELAND.

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.