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The OMARA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,527 6842 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 545 9007 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +3982 +2165 +0.001 +6
Other Countries
Australia 12 75621 0 1
United Kingdom 113 22777 0 2
Top States for OMARA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 687 2832 0.004 36
California 359 7639 0.001 11
Pennsylvania 332 4638 0.003 27
New Jersey 291 3353 0.003 35
Michigan 268 4544 0.003 27
Top States for OMARA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 54 3365 0.004 44
Massachusetts 258 3408 0.004 41
New York 687 2832 0.004 36
New Jersey 291 3353 0.003 35
Connecticut 114 4103 0.003 33

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

Classification and Origin of OMARA

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 OMARA 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 OMARA 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 OMARA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 122 2.69
Asian/Pacific 77 1.7
Mixed Race 58 1.28
Black/African American 37 0.82
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.24
White (Caucasian) 4,222 93.26

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

Meaning of OMARA in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of OMARA.

Similar names to OMARA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OMARA.

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 OMARA

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