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The SHAUGHNESSY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,037 5310 0.002 22
United States (1880 census) 1,087 5100 0.002 22
Change since 1880 +4950 -210 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 50 25410 0 3
United Kingdom 729 6713 0.002 16
Top States for SHAUGHNESSY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 977 821 0.015 154
New York 583 3043 0.003 31
Florida 433 4309 0.003 27
California 414 6209 0.001 12
Illinois 400 2964 0.003 32
Top States for SHAUGHNESSY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 977 821 0.015 154
New Hampshire 115 1571 0.009 93
Minnesota 264 2131 0.005 54
Connecticut 133 3156 0.004 39
Maine 47 3723 0.004 37

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

Classification and Origin of SHAUGHNESSY

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 SHAUGHNESSY 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 SHAUGHNESSY 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 SHAUGHNESSY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 63 1.04
Mixed Race 54 0.89
Asian/Pacific 22 0.36
White (Caucasian) 5,886 97.5
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of SHAUGHNESSY in historical publications

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

Similar names to SHAUGHNESSY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHAUGHNESSY.

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 SHAUGHNESSY

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