The O'CONNOR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	74,756	385	0.028	277
United States (1880 census)	2,722	2231	0.005	54
Change since 1880	+72034	+1846	+0.023	+223
Other Countries
Australia	123	11894	0.001	8
United Kingdom	1,931	3060	0.004	42

Top States for O'CONNOR by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	9,591	96	0.051	505
Massachusetts	6,783	47	0.107	1,068
California	5,962	493	0.018	176
Florida	4,874	332	0.030	305
Illinois	4,670	198	0.038	376
Top States for O'CONNOR by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	6,783	47	0.107	1,068
Connecticut	2,243	84	0.066	659
New Hampshire	763	154	0.062	617
Rhode Island	619	122	0.059	590
New York	9,591	96	0.051	505

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

Classification and Origin of O'CONNOR

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'CONNOR 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'CONNOR 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'CONNOR in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	822	1.1
Asian/Pacific	434	0.58
Native American/Alaskan	187	0.25
White (Caucasian)	70,831	94.75
Black/African American	1,301	1.74
White (Hispanic)	1,181	1.58

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

Similar names to O'CONNOR

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

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.