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The MC'NEILL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 18,272 1806 0.007 68
United States (1880 census) 73 38779 0 1
Change since 1880 +18199 +36973 +N/A +67
Other Countries
Australia 1,599 1017 0.01 98
United Kingdom 6,605 961 0.014 144
Top States for MC'NEILL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 4,288 236 0.053 533
Texas 1,166 2113 0.006 56
California 1,120 2870 0.003 33
New York 980 1930 0.005 52
Florida 942 2224 0.006 59
Top States for MC'NEILL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 4,288 236 0.053 533
Washington DC 86 779 0.015 150
South Carolina 547 1254 0.014 136
Delaware 87 1694 0.011 111
Maryland 577 1063 0.011 109

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

Classification and Origin of MC'NEILL

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 MC'NEILL 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 MC'NEILL 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 MC'NEILL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 280 1.53
Mixed Race 250 1.37
White (Hispanic) 238 1.3
Asian/Pacific 55 0.3
White (Caucasian) 12,049 65.94
Black/African American 5,399 29.55

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

Meaning of MC'NEILL in historical publications

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

Similar names to MC'NEILL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MC'NEILL.

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 MC'NEILL

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