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The MCFADYEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 834 27258 0 3
United States (1880 census) 67 41813 0 1
Change since 1880 +767 +14555 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 698 2310 0.004 43
United Kingdom 2,030 2922 0.004 44
Top States for MCFADYEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 160 4894 0.002 20
California 97 21990 0.000 3
Florida 60 24834 0.000 4
Massachusetts 42 16668 0.001 7
Virginia 40 13905 0.001 6
Top States for MCFADYEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 160 4894 0.002 20
Idaho 14 11452 0.001 11
Alaska 5 18372 0.001 8
Arizona 35 13812 0.001 7
Massachusetts 42 16668 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of MCFADYEN

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 MCFADYEN 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 MCFADYEN 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 MCFADYEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 765 91.73
White (Hispanic) 28 3.36
Black/African American 26 3.12
Mixed Race 8 0.96
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of MCFADYEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to MCFADYEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCFADYEN.

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 MCFADYEN

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