The OCONNELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	35,610	886	0.013	132
United States (1880 census)	1,884	3145	0.004	38
Change since 1880	+33726	+2259	+0.009	+94
Other Countries
Australia	43	28811	0	3
United Kingdom	693	6970	0.002	15

Top States for OCONNELL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	3,996	127	0.063	629
New York	3,937	376	0.021	207
California	3,015	1037	0.009	89
Florida	2,237	857	0.014	140
Illinois	2,224	481	0.018	179
Top States for OCONNELL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	3,996	127	0.063	629
Rhode Island	451	201	0.043	430
New Hampshire	483	324	0.039	391
Connecticut	1,275	196	0.037	374
Vermont	157	582	0.026	258

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

Classification and Origin of OCONNELL

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 OCONNELL 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 OCONNELL 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 OCONNELL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	516	1.45
Mixed Race	399	1.12
Asian/Pacific	178	0.5
Black/African American	103	0.29
Native American/Alaskan	71	0.2
White (Caucasian)	34,339	96.43

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

Meaning of OCONNELL in historical publications

O'CONNELL. "From the district of Upper and Lower Comielloe, co. Limerick, the O'Conuells removed to Iveragh in the western extremity of Kerry, and remained there for a considerable period, until the rebellion of 1041 transplanted them to the co. of Clare." B.L.G. In 751, say the Four Masters, died Flan O'Connell, King of the Hy Falgians. In the X. century the deaths of two O'Connells, abbots of Devenish, are commemorated ; and it is singular that in that parish there are two townlands beariug the respective names of Bally-Connell and Glen-ti-Connell. At the memorable battle of Cloutarf, in 1014, the chief of the O'Connells was one of the leaders. D'Alton.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to OCONNELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OCONNELL.

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.