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The MCCAULEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 23,926 1360 0.009 89
United States (1880 census) 72 38982 0 1
Change since 1880 +23854 +37622 +N/A +88
Other Countries
Australia 938 1757 0.006 57
United Kingdom 2,004 2947 0.004 44
Top States for MCCAULEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 1,745 733 0.014 142
Texas 1,656 1485 0.008 79
California 1,600 1992 0.005 47
Florida 1,211 1676 0.008 76
New York 1,196 1508 0.006 63
Top States for MCCAULEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 466 577 0.026 258
Montana 141 719 0.016 156
Kentucky 624 932 0.015 154
Virginia 1,044 839 0.015 147
Pennsylvania 1,745 733 0.014 142

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

Classification and Origin of MCCAULEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

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 MCCAULEY 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 MCCAULEY 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 MCCAULEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 340 1.42
Mixed Race 321 1.34
Native American/Alaskan 225 0.94
Asian/Pacific 103 0.43
White (Caucasian) 20,473 85.57
Black/African American 2,462 10.29

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

Meaning of MCCAULEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to MCCAULEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCCAULEY.

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 MCCAULEY

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