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The MCGARRITY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,098 22011 0 4
United States (1880 census) 69 40551 0 1
Change since 1880 +1029 +18540 +N/A +3
Other Countries
Australia 130 11256 0.001 8
United Kingdom 762 6485 0.002 17
Top States for MCGARRITY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 224 6815 0.002 18
New York 122 15495 0.001 6
New Jersey 74 13228 0.001 9
Florida 50 31216 0.000 3
Mississippi 46 5482 0.002 16
Top States for MCGARRITY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 224 6815 0.002 18
Mississippi 46 5482 0.002 16
Arkansas 37 7128 0.001 14
New Jersey 74 13228 0.001 9
Connecticut 28 16965 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of MCGARRITY

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 MCGARRITY 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 MCGARRITY 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 MCGARRITY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 54 4.92
White (Hispanic) 14 1.28
Mixed Race 8 0.73
White (Caucasian) 1,019 92.81
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 MCGARRITY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of MCGARRITY in historical publications

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

Similar names to MCGARRITY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCGARRITY.

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 MCGARRITY

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