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The OGARA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,866 14622 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 163 22382 0 3
Change since 1880 +1703 +7760 +N/A +4
Other Countries
Australia 1 389561 0 0
United Kingdom 58 25669 0 1
Top States for OGARA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 215 8925 0.001 11
California 205 12319 0.001 6
Massachusetts 177 4740 0.003 28
Illinois 142 9275 0.001 11
Florida 124 14175 0.001 8
Top States for OGARA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 51 3151 0.005 49
New Hampshire 51 3481 0.004 41
Massachusetts 177 4740 0.003 28
Minnesota 124 5901 0.003 25
Nebraska 42 6529 0.002 25

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

Classification and Origin of OGARA

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 OGARA 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 OGARA 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 OGARA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 46 2.47
Asian/Pacific 40 2.14
Mixed Race 34 1.82
White (Caucasian) 1,714 91.85
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of OGARA in historical publications

O'GARA. The ancient territorial lords of Moy-0'Gara and Coolavin, co. Sligo. The first recorded ancestor seems to be Roderic O'Gara, who died in 1056. 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 OGARA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OGARA.

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 OGARA

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