The LANIGAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,350	12157	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	697	7381	0.001	14
Change since 1880	+1653	-4776	0	-5
Other Countries
Australia	328	4804	0.002	20
United Kingdom	600	7780	0.001	13

Top States for LANIGAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	275	6944	0.001	14
Florida	187	9708	0.001	12
Massachusetts	170	4845	0.003	27
Illinois	157	8207	0.001	13
California	135	17375	0.000	4
Top States for LANIGAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Hampshire	43	3921	0.003	35
Rhode Island	32	4825	0.003	31
Massachusetts	170	4845	0.003	27
Delaware	16	8238	0.002	20
Maine	26	5990	0.002	20

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

Classification and Origin of LANIGAN

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 LANIGAN 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 LANIGAN 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 LANIGAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	61	2.6
White (Hispanic)	39	1.66
Asian/Pacific	27	1.15
White (Caucasian)	2,197	93.49
Mixed Race	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Similar names to LANIGAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LANIGAN.

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.