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The O'DAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,713 8217 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 469 10172 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +3244 +1955 0 +5
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 12 30025 0 0
Top States for O'DAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 368 7075 0.001 11
Florida 238 7669 0.001 15
Massachusetts 236 3503 0.004 37
Pennsylvania 226 6431 0.002 18
New York 167 10875 0.001 9
Top States for O'DAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 98 1355 0.013 125
New Hampshire 47 3553 0.004 38
Massachusetts 236 3503 0.004 37
South Dakota 27 4611 0.004 36
Nevada 69 3274 0.003 35

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

Classification and Origin of O'DAY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 65 1.75
Mixed Race 54 1.45
White (Hispanic) 50 1.35
Asian/Pacific 34 0.92
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.24
White (Caucasian) 3,501 94.29

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

Meaning of O'DAY in historical publications

ODAY. SeeOdy.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to O'DAY

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

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'DAY

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