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The O'DONELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 460 44103 0 2
United States (1880 census) 335 13138 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +125 -30965 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for O'DONELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 48 33010 0.000 4
Florida 39 45167 0.000 2
Pennsylvania 39 41535 0.000 3
New York 38 55083 0.000 2
California 28 85180 0.000 1
Top States for O'DONELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 6 31637 0.000 5
Alaska 3 38321 0.000 5
West Virginia 7 18485 0.000 4
Illinois 48 33010 0.000 4
Nevada 7 41398 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of O'DONELL

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the O'DONELL surname.

Ethnic distribution of O'DONELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 409 88.91
Black/African American 19 4.13
White (Hispanic) 15 3.26
Mixed Race 11 2.39
Native American/Alaskan 6 1.3
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 0

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

O'DONELL is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of O'DONELL in historical publications

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

Similar names to O'DONELL

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

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'DONELL

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