The LOONEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	12,955	2568	0.005	48
United States (1880 census)	2,730	2222	0.005	55
Change since 1880	+10225	-346	0	-7
Other Countries
Australia	151	9818	0.001	9
United Kingdom	296	12823	0.001	6

Top States for LOONEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,384	1840	0.007	66
Alabama	933	849	0.021	210
Virginia	887	1082	0.013	125
Tennessee	720	1285	0.013	127
California	704	4378	0.002	21
Top States for LOONEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	933	849	0.021	210
Arkansas	479	769	0.018	179
West Virginia	236	1199	0.013	131
Oklahoma	437	1130	0.013	127
Tennessee	720	1285	0.013	127

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

Classification and Origin of LOONEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	197	1.52
White (Hispanic)	183	1.41
Native American/Alaskan	161	1.24
Asian/Pacific	40	0.31
White (Caucasian)	11,140	85.99
Black/African American	1,235	9.53

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

Similar names to LOONEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LOONEY.

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.