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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

'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.

Meaning of PHELAN in historical publications

PHELAN. See O'Phelan.

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 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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PHELAN

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