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The KEOGH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,558 11329 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 932 5794 0.002 19
Change since 1880 +1626 -5535 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 2,028 799 0.012 124
United Kingdom 3,620 1730 0.008 79
Top States for KEOGH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 236 7530 0.001 12
Massachusetts 213 3713 0.003 34
California 191 12143 0.001 6
Florida 178 9573 0.001 11
New Jersey 146 6107 0.002 17
Top States for KEOGH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 24 3446 0.004 38
Connecticut 127 3273 0.004 37
Montana 32 3888 0.004 35
Massachusetts 213 3713 0.003 34
Nebraska 56 4092 0.003 33

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

Classification and Origin of KEOGH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the KEOGH 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 KEOGH 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 KEOGH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 44 1.72
Mixed Race 28 1.09
Native American/Alaskan 18 0.7
Asian/Pacific 14 0.55
Black/African American 8 0.31
White (Caucasian) 2,446 95.62

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

Meaning of KEOGH in historical publications

KEOGH. A contraction of the Irish eurname Mac Eochy, or Eochaid. The family claun descent from Fergus, king of "Ulster, and from Koderick the Great, king of all Ireland.

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 KEOGH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KEOGH.

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 KEOGH

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