The history of your name

The KEALY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 811 27877 0 3
United States (1880 census) 248 16471 0 5
Change since 1880 +563 -11406 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 274 5649 0.002 17
United Kingdom 325 12076 0.001 7
Top States for KEALY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 80 9501 0.002 16
California 74 29482 0.000 2
New Jersey 71 13674 0.001 8
New York 71 25369 0.000 4
Florida 51 29942 0.000 3
Top States for KEALY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 80 9501 0.002 16
Nebraska 22 12103 0.001 13
Delaware 9 13795 0.001 11
Wyoming 5 14748 0.001 10
New Jersey 71 13674 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of KEALY

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 KEALY 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 KEALY 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 KEALY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 775 95.56
White (Hispanic) 13 1.6
Mixed Race 11 1.36
Black/African American 6 0.74
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 KEALY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of KEALY in historical publications

KEALY. The same as Keeley.

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 KEALY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KEALY.

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 KEALY

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