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The MAUGHAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,107 9598 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 283 14909 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +2824 +5311 0 +6
Other Countries
Australia 422 3737 0.003 26
United Kingdom 3,114 2000 0.007 68
Top States for MAUGHAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 955 280 0.043 428
Idaho 233 776 0.018 180
California 214 12813 0.001 6
Washington 147 5492 0.002 25
Texas 146 12410 0.001 7
Top States for MAUGHAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 955 280 0.043 428
Idaho 233 776 0.018 180
Nebraska 61 4647 0.004 36
Montana 32 4855 0.004 35
Arizona 134 4867 0.003 26

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

Classification and Origin of MAUGHAN

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 MAUGHAN 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 MAUGHAN 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 MAUGHAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 42 1.35
Mixed Race 28 0.9
Black/African American 19 0.61
Native American/Alaskan 13 0.42
Asian/Pacific 10 0.32
White (Caucasian) 2,995 96.4

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

Meaning of MAUGHAN in historical publications

MAUGHAN. Two parishes in Cornwall are called Mawgan.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to MAUGHAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MAUGHAN.

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 MAUGHAN

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