The O'NEAL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	46,161	680	0.017	171
United States (1880 census)	5,288	1150	0.011	106
Change since 1880	+40873	+470	+0.006	+65
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	21	28470	0	0

Top States for O'NEAL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	4,548	577	0.022	218
Georgia	3,652	271	0.045	446
Florida	3,241	636	0.020	203
North Carolina	2,941	395	0.037	365
California	2,856	1212	0.008	84
Top States for O'NEAL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	415	264	0.053	530
Georgia	3,652	271	0.045	446
Mississippi	1,255	349	0.044	441
Louisiana	1,818	348	0.041	407
Arkansas	1,057	325	0.040	395

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

Classification and Origin of O'NEAL

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'NEAL 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'NEAL 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'NEAL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	808	1.75
White (Hispanic)	766	1.66
Native American/Alaskan	355	0.77
Asian/Pacific	152	0.33
White (Caucasian)	30,909	66.96
Black/African American	13,165	28.52

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

Similar names to O'NEAL

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

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.