The O' DONNELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	42,802	728	0.016	159
United States (1880 census)	1,844	3202	0.004	37
Change since 1880	+40958	+2474	+0.012	+122
Other Countries
Australia	63	21176	0	4
United Kingdom	1,217	4458	0.003	26

Top States for O' DONNELL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	4,768	205	0.039	388
New York	4,025	363	0.021	212
Massachusetts	3,541	169	0.056	558
California	3,093	1021	0.009	91
New Jersey	2,839	223	0.034	337
Top States for O' DONNELL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	3,541	169	0.056	558
Maine	533	422	0.042	418
Rhode Island	438	215	0.042	418
New Hampshire	514	295	0.042	416
Pennsylvania	4,768	205	0.039	388

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

Classification and Origin of O' DONNELL

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' DONNELL 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' DONNELL 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' DONNELL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	646	1.51
Mixed Race	432	1.01
Asian/Pacific	201	0.47
Black/African American	163	0.38
Native American/Alaskan	77	0.18
White (Caucasian)	41,287	96.46

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

Similar names to O' DONNELL

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

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.