The PHELAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	10,343	3181	0.004	38
United States (1880 census)	2,370	2555	0.005	47
Change since 1880	+7973	-626	-0.001	-9
Other Countries
Australia	1,424	1152	0.009	87
United Kingdom	2,798	2224	0.006	61

Top States for PHELAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,187	1453	0.006	63
California	899	3240	0.003	27
Massachusetts	797	1072	0.013	126
Illinois	620	1973	0.005	50
Florida	613	3182	0.004	38
Top States for PHELAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Connecticut	439	863	0.013	129
Massachusetts	797	1072	0.013	126
Rhode Island	104	1425	0.010	99
New Hampshire	109	1730	0.009	88
Maine	89	2349	0.007	70

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

Classification and Origin of PHELAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PHELAN 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 PHELAN 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 PHELAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	184	1.78
Mixed Race	130	1.26
Black/African American	116	1.12
Native American/Alaskan	59	0.57
Asian/Pacific	54	0.52
White (Caucasian)	9,800	94.75

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

Similar names to PHELAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PHELAN.

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.