The NEARY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,806	6514	0.002	18
United States (1880 census)	1,041	5277	0.002	21
Change since 1880	+3765	-1237	0	-3
Other Countries
Australia	229	6662	0.001	14
United Kingdom	2,086	2854	0.005	45

Top States for NEARY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	683	2799	0.004	36
Pennsylvania	471	3244	0.004	38
Massachusetts	305	2857	0.005	48
Florida	303	6452	0.002	19
New Jersey	287	3352	0.003	34
Top States for NEARY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	77	2112	0.007	73
Montana	51	2445	0.006	57
Connecticut	174	2576	0.005	51
Massachusetts	305	2857	0.005	48
Vermont	28	3567	0.005	46

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

Classification and Origin of NEARY

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 NEARY 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 NEARY 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 NEARY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	63	1.31
White (Hispanic)	57	1.19
Mixed Race	49	1.02
White (Caucasian)	4,610	95.92
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 NEARY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to NEARY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NEARY.

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.