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The LANNIGAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 387 50686 0 1
United States (1880 census) 336 13099 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +51 -37587 +N/A -6
Other Countries
Australia 36 33076 0 2
United Kingdom 299 12763 0.001 7
Top States for LANNIGAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 55 14293 0.001 9
Oregon 32 13385 0.001 9
New York 28 60934 0.000 1
Pennsylvania 28 47504 0.000 2
Wisconsin 26 31733 0.000 5
Top States for LANNIGAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 20 7717 0.002 19
Maine 17 8754 0.001 13
Idaho 14 12262 0.001 11
Oregon 32 13385 0.001 9
Massachusetts 55 14293 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of LANNIGAN

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 LANNIGAN 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 LANNIGAN 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 LANNIGAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 357 92.25
Black/African American 17 4.39
Mixed Race 6 1.55
White (Hispanic) 6 1.55
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 LANNIGAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of LANNIGAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to LANNIGAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LANNIGAN.

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 LANNIGAN

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