The KAVANAGH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,969	6312	0.002	18
United States (1880 census)	1,186	4724	0.002	24
Change since 1880	+3783	-1588	0	-6
Other Countries
Australia	1,684	965	0.01	103
United Kingdom	7,049	889	0.015	153

Top States for KAVANAGH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	844	1938	0.004	44
California	494	5114	0.001	15
Massachusetts	375	2107	0.006	59
New Jersey	319	2609	0.004	38
Florida	267	6518	0.002	17
Top States for KAVANAGH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	77	1872	0.007	73
Massachusetts	375	2107	0.006	59
Delaware	42	2915	0.005	54
New York	844	1938	0.004	44
Maine	50	3409	0.004	39

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

Classification and Origin of KAVANAGH

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 KAVANAGH 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 KAVANAGH 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 KAVANAGH in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	57	1.15
White (Hispanic)	56	1.13
Black/African American	53	1.07
Asian/Pacific	37	0.74
Native American/Alaskan	7	0.14
White (Caucasian)	4,759	95.77

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

Similar names to KAVANAGH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KAVANAGH.

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.