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The O'CONNER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,168 7368 0.002 16
United States (1880 census) 1,952 3036 0.004 39
Change since 1880 +2216 -4332 -0.002 -23
Other Countries
Australia 1 389457 0 0
United Kingdom 62 25528 0 1
Top States for O'CONNER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 345 7304 0.001 10
New York 330 5431 0.002 17
Florida 270 6655 0.002 17
Louisiana 237 2336 0.005 53
Texas 211 8040 0.001 10
Top States for O'CONNER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 237 2336 0.005 53
Iowa 89 4437 0.003 30
Indiana 132 5303 0.002 22
Georgia 164 4575 0.002 20
South Carolina 79 5194 0.002 20

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

Classification and Origin of O'CONNER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the O'CONNER 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'CONNER 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'CONNER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 427 10.24
White (Hispanic) 98 2.35
Mixed Race 62 1.49
Asian/Pacific 22 0.53
Native American/Alaskan 21 0.5
White (Caucasian) 3,538 84.88

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

Meaning of O'CONNER in historical publications

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

Similar names to O'CONNER

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

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'CONNER

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