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The MAGOWAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 474 42983 0 2
United States (1880 census) 135 25576 0 3
Change since 1880 +339 -17407 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 56 23106 0 3
United Kingdom 1,034 5117 0.002 23
Top States for MAGOWAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Connecticut 63 7089 0.002 18
California 52 40180 0.000 2
Massachusetts 49 14900 0.001 8
Florida 37 39079 0.000 2
New Jersey 35 27198 0.000 4
Top States for MAGOWAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 15 6568 0.002 24
Connecticut 63 7089 0.002 18
Rhode Island 15 9806 0.001 14
Vermont 7 11648 0.001 11
Massachusetts 49 14900 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of MAGOWAN

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 MAGOWAN 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 MAGOWAN 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 MAGOWAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 442 93.25
Mixed Race 11 2.32
Asian/Pacific 7 1.48
White (Hispanic) 7 1.48
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of MAGOWAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to MAGOWAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MAGOWAN.

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 MAGOWAN

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