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The OMEARA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,667 6673 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 257 16014 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +4410 +9341 +0.001 +12
Other Countries
Australia 38 31553 0 2
United Kingdom 93 24289 0 2
Top States for OMEARA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 394 6657 0.001 12
Massachusetts 343 2468 0.005 54
Illinois 326 3767 0.003 26
New York 303 6094 0.002 16
Florida 298 6253 0.002 19
Top States for OMEARA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 42 2364 0.007 69
Connecticut 191 2211 0.006 56
New Hampshire 69 2562 0.006 56
Massachusetts 343 2468 0.005 54
Iowa 132 2948 0.005 45

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

Classification and Origin of OMEARA

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 OMEARA 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 OMEARA 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 OMEARA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 57 1.22
Mixed Race 52 1.11
Asian/Pacific 26 0.56
Black/African American 12 0.26
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.15
White (Caucasian) 4,513 96.7

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

Meaning of OMEARA in historical publications

O'MEARA. "A distinguished territorial sept in the barony of Upper Ormond, co. Tipperary ; and the name of their principal residence, Tuaim-ui-Meara, is still retained in that of Toomavara within that district." 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 OMEARA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OMEARA.

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 OMEARA

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