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The ONEAL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 46,161 680 0.017 171
United States (1880 census) 5,288 1150 0.011 106
Change since 1880 +40873 +470 +0.006 +65
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 21 28470 0 0
Top States for ONEAL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 4,548 577 0.022 218
Georgia 3,652 271 0.045 446
Florida 3,241 636 0.020 203
North Carolina 2,941 395 0.037 365
California 2,856 1212 0.008 84
Top States for ONEAL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 415 264 0.053 530
Georgia 3,652 271 0.045 446
Mississippi 1,255 349 0.044 441
Louisiana 1,818 348 0.041 407
Arkansas 1,057 325 0.040 395

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

Classification and Origin of ONEAL

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 ONEAL 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 ONEAL 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 ONEAL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 808 1.75
White (Hispanic) 766 1.66
Native American/Alaskan 355 0.77
Asian/Pacific 152 0.33
White (Caucasian) 30,909 66.96
Black/African American 13,165 28.52

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

Meaning of ONEAL in historical publications

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

Similar names to ONEAL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ONEAL.

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 ONEAL

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