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The NELLIGAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,147 21295 0 4
United States (1880 census) 454 10443 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +693 -10852 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 166 8934 0.001 10
United Kingdom 91 24415 0 2
Top States for NELLIGAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 148 5323 0.002 23
New York 143 12645 0.001 8
Illinois 115 10893 0.001 9
Pennsylvania 98 14160 0.001 8
California 91 23838 0.000 3
Top States for NELLIGAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 40 4280 0.003 31
Rhode Island 26 5658 0.002 25
Massachusetts 148 5323 0.002 23
Vermont 11 7415 0.002 18
Connecticut 42 10559 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of NELLIGAN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the NELLIGAN surname.

Ethnic distribution of NELLIGAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 12 1.05
White (Hispanic) 12 1.05
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.61
White (Caucasian) 1,111 96.86
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant

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

NELLIGAN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of NELLIGAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to NELLIGAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NELLIGAN.

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 NELLIGAN

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