The O'MEARA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,667	6673	0.002	17
United States (1880 census)	257	16014	0.001	5
Change since 1880	+4410	+9341	+0.001	+12
Other Countries
Australia	38	31553	0	2
United Kingdom	93	24289	0	2

Top States for O'MEARA by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	394	6657	0.001	12
Massachusetts	343	2468	0.005	54
Illinois	326	3767	0.003	26
New York	303	6094	0.002	16
Florida	298	6253	0.002	19
Top States for O'MEARA by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	42	2364	0.007	69
Connecticut	191	2211	0.006	56
New Hampshire	69	2562	0.006	56
Massachusetts	343	2468	0.005	54
Iowa	132	2948	0.005	45

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

Classification and Origin of O'MEARA

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'MEARA 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'MEARA 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'MEARA in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	57	1.22
Mixed Race	52	1.11
Asian/Pacific	26	0.56
Black/African American	12	0.26
Native American/Alaskan	7	0.15
White (Caucasian)	4,513	96.7

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

Similar names to O'MEARA

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

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.