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The MEAGHER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,619 5664 0.002 21
United States (1880 census) 1,656 3514 0.003 33
Change since 1880 +3963 -2150 -0.001 -12
Other Countries
Australia 825 1969 0.005 50
United Kingdom 384 10739 0.001 8
Top States for MEAGHER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 553 3292 0.003 29
California 509 5242 0.002 15
Massachusetts 479 1780 0.008 75
Florida 404 4699 0.003 25
Illinois 301 4040 0.002 24
Top States for MEAGHER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 53 1708 0.008 83
Maine 97 2181 0.008 76
Massachusetts 479 1780 0.008 75
Montana 61 1846 0.007 68
New Hampshire 77 2319 0.006 62

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

Classification and Origin of MEAGHER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MEAGHER 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 MEAGHER 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 MEAGHER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 80 1.42
Mixed Race 45 0.8
Asian/Pacific 27 0.48
Black/African American 21 0.37
Native American/Alaskan 10 0.18
White (Caucasian) 5,436 96.74

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

Meaning of MEAGHER in historical publications

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

Similar names to MEAGHER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MEAGHER.

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 MEAGHER

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