The OHARA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	21,068	1565	0.008	78
United States (1880 census)	1,691	3463	0.003	34
Change since 1880	+19377	+1898	+0.005	+44
Other Countries
Australia	17	59517	0	1
United Kingdom	755	6548	0.002	16

Top States for OHARA by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	2,387	696	0.013	126
California	2,316	1390	0.007	68
Pennsylvania	1,798	697	0.015	146
Florida	1,506	1350	0.009	94
New Jersey	1,110	749	0.013	132
Top States for OHARA by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	184	774	0.018	176
Massachusetts	965	896	0.015	152
Pennsylvania	1,798	697	0.015	146
New Hampshire	169	1128	0.014	137
New Jersey	1,110	749	0.013	132

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

Classification and Origin of OHARA

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 OHARA 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 OHARA 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 OHARA in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	737	3.5
Black/African American	569	2.7
White (Hispanic)	495	2.35
Mixed Race	299	1.42
Native American/Alaskan	48	0.23
White (Caucasian)	18,917	89.79

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

Similar names to OHARA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OHARA.

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.