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The O'HERN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,341 18857 0 5
United States (1880 census) 328 13346 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +1013 -5511 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 1 389654 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for O'HERN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 134 17394 0.000 4
New York 111 16358 0.001 6
Illinois 109 11856 0.001 9
Florida 80 20227 0.001 5
Pennsylvania 80 17534 0.001 7
Top States for O'HERN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 65 6745 0.002 22
Montana 20 6998 0.002 22
Oklahoma 57 6900 0.002 17
Minnesota 77 9685 0.002 16
Rhode Island 13 10582 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of O'HERN

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

Ethnic distribution of O'HERN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 14 1.04
Asian/Pacific 11 0.82
Mixed Race 11 0.82
White (Caucasian) 1,296 96.64
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of O'HERN in historical publications

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

Similar names to O'HERN

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

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'HERN

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