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The O'BRYAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,192 5185 0.002 23
United States (1880 census) 462 10299 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +5730 +5114 +0.001 +14
Other Countries
Australia 12 75570 0 1
United Kingdom 14 29801 0 0
Top States for O'BRYAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 1,240 499 0.031 307
California 412 6913 0.001 12
Florida 399 5148 0.002 25
Ohio 369 3902 0.003 33
Michigan 313 3952 0.003 31
Top States for O'BRYAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 1,240 499 0.031 307
Vermont 32 3215 0.005 53
South Dakota 39 3324 0.005 52
Missouri 236 3279 0.004 42
Kansas 107 3203 0.004 40

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

Classification and Origin of O'BRYAN

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'BRYAN 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'BRYAN 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'BRYAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 121 1.95
Black/African American 94 1.52
Mixed Race 83 1.34
Native American/Alaskan 32 0.52
Asian/Pacific 21 0.34
White (Caucasian) 5,841 94.33

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

Meaning of O'BRYAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to O'BRYAN

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

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'BRYAN

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