The MOONEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	32,953	968	0.012	122
United States (1880 census)	10,764	550	0.022	215
Change since 1880	+22189	-418	-0.01	-93
Other Countries
Australia	2,454	656	0.015	150
United Kingdom	9,211	648	0.02	201

Top States for MOONEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	2,558	650	0.013	135
California	2,116	1560	0.006	62
Pennsylvania	2,011	618	0.016	164
Texas	1,938	1300	0.009	93
Florida	1,799	1145	0.011	113
Top States for MOONEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	311	385	0.030	297
Maine	296	873	0.023	232
New Hampshire	284	661	0.023	230
Mississippi	630	699	0.022	221
West Virginia	393	710	0.022	217

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

Classification and Origin of MOONEY

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 MOONEY 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 MOONEY 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 MOONEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	425	1.29
Mixed Race	415	1.26
Native American/Alaskan	198	0.6
Asian/Pacific	161	0.49
White (Caucasian)	30,445	92.39
Black/African American	1,308	3.97

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

Similar names to MOONEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MOONEY.

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.