The history of your name

The O' GRADY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,024 4617 0.003 26
United States (1880 census) 384 11872 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +6640 +7255 +0.002 +18
Other Countries
Australia 25 43998 0 2
United Kingdom 293 12930 0.001 6
Top States for O' GRADY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 903 1923 0.005 48
California 706 3989 0.002 21
Florida 519 3746 0.003 32
Illinois 489 2470 0.004 39
Massachusetts 478 1790 0.008 75
Top States for O' GRADY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 478 1790 0.008 75
Delaware 48 2727 0.006 61
Rhode Island 63 2441 0.006 60
South Dakota 45 2544 0.006 60
Vermont 36 2687 0.006 59

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

Classification and Origin of O' GRADY

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' GRADY 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' GRADY 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' GRADY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 115 1.64
Mixed Race 87 1.24
Asian/Pacific 38 0.54
Black/African American 23 0.33
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.21
White (Caucasian) 6,746 96.04

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

Meaning of O' GRADY in historical publications

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

Similar names to O' GRADY

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

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 O' GRADY

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