The O' ROURKE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	16,263	2044	0.006	60
United States (1880 census)	633	7975	0.001	13
Change since 1880	+15630	+5931	+0.005	+47
Other Countries
Australia	19	54136	0	1
United Kingdom	454	9482	0.001	10

Top States for O' ROURKE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,919	866	0.010	101
California	1,425	2143	0.004	42
Massachusetts	1,333	605	0.021	210
Pennsylvania	1,063	1289	0.009	87
New Jersey	1,060	775	0.013	126
Top States for O' ROURKE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	251	499	0.024	239
Massachusetts	1,333	605	0.021	210
Vermont	109	926	0.018	179
New Hampshire	206	897	0.017	167
Connecticut	451	853	0.013	132

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

Classification and Origin of O' ROURKE

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 O' ROURKE 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 O' ROURKE 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 O' ROURKE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	283	1.74
Mixed Race	179	1.1
Native American/Alaskan	91	0.56
Asian/Pacific	80	0.49
Black/African American	73	0.45
White (Caucasian)	15,559	95.67

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

Similar names to O' ROURKE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as O' ROURKE.

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.