The history of your name

The OMAHONY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 536 38771 0 2
United States (1880 census) 9 89106 0 0
Change since 1880 +527 +50335 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 1 389976 0 0
United Kingdom 139 20363 0 3
Top States for OMAHONY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 91 20441 0.000 3
New York 73 19983 0.000 4
Massachusetts 51 11957 0.001 8
Florida 45 27923 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 39 28523 0.000 3
Top States for OMAHONY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 51 11957 0.001 8
New Hampshire 9 13179 0.001 7
Washington DC 4 12648 0.001 7
Connecticut 18 20467 0.001 5
Delaware 4 26622 0.001 5

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

Classification and Origin of OMAHONY

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 OMAHONY 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 OMAHONY 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 OMAHONY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 512 95.52
Mixed Race 13 2.43
White (Hispanic) 5 0.93
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of OMAHONY in historical publications

O'MAHONY. The O'Mahonys of Desmond are named from Mahon, son of Kian, king of Desmond, who fell at ClontarfinlOU. O'Donovan. "The O'Mahonys were powerful chieftains in Munster, and had extensive estates along the seacoast of Cork and Kerry. Opposite Horse Island, off the former county, was their castle of Rosbrin, boldly erected on a rock over the sea ; and its proprietor, availing himself of tlie natural advantage it possessed, led a life of such successful piracy that Sir George Carew, when lord president, was obliged to destroy it." 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 OMAHONY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OMAHONY.

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 OMAHONY

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