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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

'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.

Meaning of MCKIERNAN in historical publications

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

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MCKIERNAN

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