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The MCELHANY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 352 54766 0 1
United States (1880 census) 263 15773 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +89 -38993 +N/A -4
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MCELHANY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oklahoma 62 6072 0.002 18
California 40 47882 0.000 1
Pennsylvania 39 32027 0.000 3
Missouri 36 16184 0.001 6
Texas 28 37220 0.000 1
Top States for MCELHANY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 22 5601 0.003 29
Oklahoma 62 6072 0.002 18
Missouri 36 16184 0.001 6
Nevada 11 19896 0.001 6
Oregon 12 30422 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of MCELHANY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the MCELHANY surname.

Ethnic distribution of MCELHANY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 345 98.01
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

MCELHANY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of MCELHANY in historical publications

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

Similar names to MCELHANY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCELHANY.

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 MCELHANY

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