The MCKIERNAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,970	14038	0.001	7
United States (1880 census)	68	41323	0	1
Change since 1880	+1902	+27285	+N/A	+6
Other Countries
Australia	309	5065	0.002	19
United Kingdom	618	7620	0.001	13

Top States for MCKIERNAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	273	6262	0.001	14
California	196	11477	0.001	6
Connecticut	153	2603	0.004	45
Florida	129	12294	0.001	8
Massachusetts	125	5833	0.002	20
Top States for MCKIERNAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	64	2254	0.006	61
Connecticut	153	2603	0.004	45
Montana	24	5316	0.003	27
Massachusetts	125	5833	0.002	20
New Jersey	122	7115	0.001	14

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of MCKIERNAN

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 MCKIERNAN 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 MCKIERNAN 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 MCKIERNAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	45	2.28
Mixed Race	23	1.17
Asian/Pacific	10	0.51
Black/African American	10	0.51
White (Caucasian)	1,882	95.53
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	0

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

Similar names to MCKIERNAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCKIERNAN.

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.