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The KEANY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 231 77222 0 1
United States (1880 census) 50 49167 0 1
Change since 1880 +181 -28055 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 31 37522 0 2
United Kingdom 181 17494 0 4
Top States for KEANY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 33 20496 0.001 5
New York 26 58678 0.000 1
New Jersey 25 34931 0.000 3
California 23 77646 0.000 1
Texas 23 43014 0.000 1
Top States for KEANY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 33 20496 0.001 5
Connecticut 16 26888 0.000 5
New Jersey 25 34931 0.000 3
Arizona 14 32915 0.000 3
Virginia 17 27203 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of KEANY

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 KEANY 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 KEANY 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 KEANY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 207 89.61
Mixed Race 7 3.03
White (Hispanic) 7 3.03
Native American/Alaskan 6 2.6
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of KEANY in historical publications

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

Similar names to KEANY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KEANY.

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 KEANY

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