The O'KEEFE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	16,829	1966	0.006	62
United States (1880 census)	923	5837	0.002	18
Change since 1880	+15906	+3871	+0.004	+44
Other Countries
Australia	94	14973	0.001	6
United Kingdom	306	12587	0.001	7

Top States for O'KEEFE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,909	853	0.010	101
Massachusetts	1,754	423	0.028	276
California	1,391	2158	0.004	41
Florida	1,130	1718	0.007	71
New Jersey	962	845	0.011	114
Top States for O'KEEFE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,754	423	0.028	276
New Hampshire	217	838	0.018	176
Connecticut	577	592	0.017	169
Vermont	89	1160	0.015	146
Rhode Island	148	962	0.014	141

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

Classification and Origin of O'KEEFE

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'KEEFE 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'KEEFE 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'KEEFE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	298	1.77
Mixed Race	188	1.12
Asian/Pacific	84	0.5
Black/African American	57	0.34
Native American/Alaskan	45	0.27
White (Caucasian)	16,156	96

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

Similar names to O'KEEFE

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

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.