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The MACGILLIVRAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 805 28028 0 3
United States (1880 census) -1 116093 0 0
Change since 1880 +806 +88065 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 178 8385 0.001 11
United Kingdom 941 5526 0.002 20
Top States for MACGILLIVRAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 194 3482 0.003 31
California 100 18445 0.000 3
Michigan 56 17483 0.001 6
Florida 54 23347 0.000 3
Ohio 37 25462 0.000 3
Top States for MACGILLIVRAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 194 3482 0.003 31
Rhode Island 22 5426 0.002 21
New Mexico 30 4221 0.002 16
Maine 13 8788 0.001 10
Montana 8 13713 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 MACGILLIVRAY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MACGILLIVRAY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MACGILLIVRAY in Massachusetts than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MACGILLIVRAY by picking someone at random in Massachusetts than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MACGILLIVRAY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 784 97.39
Mixed Race 9 1.12
White (Hispanic) 7 0.87
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of MACGILLIVRAY in historical publications

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

Similar names to MACGILLIVRAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MACGILLIVRAY.

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 MACGILLIVRAY

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