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The O'MELIA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 628 34150 0 2
United States (1880 census) 171 21637 0 3
Change since 1880 +457 -12513 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 33 27262 0 1
Top States for O'MELIA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 79 9707 0.001 12
New York 77 23290 0.000 4
New Jersey 52 18404 0.001 6
Pennsylvania 43 31316 0.000 4
Florida 34 42528 0.000 2
Top States for O'MELIA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 10 7066 0.002 20
Massachusetts 79 9707 0.001 12
Nebraska 12 18770 0.001 7
Rhode Island 7 18928 0.001 7
New Jersey 52 18404 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of O'MELIA

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'MELIA 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'MELIA 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'MELIA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 595 94.75
White (Hispanic) 14 2.23
Mixed Race 12 1.91
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of O'MELIA in historical publications

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

Similar names to O'MELIA

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

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'MELIA

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