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The A'HERN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,046 4065 0.003 30
United States (1880 census) 2,378 2551 0.005 48
Change since 1880 +5668 -1514 -0.002 -18
Other Countries
Australia 1,083 1526 0.007 66
United Kingdom 1,255 4340 0.003 27
Top States for A'HERN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 1,045 780 0.016 165
California 791 3611 0.002 23
New York 750 2379 0.004 40
Florida 582 3353 0.004 36
Illinois 565 2162 0.005 45
Top States for A'HERN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 1,045 780 0.016 165
New Hampshire 186 987 0.015 151
Connecticut 397 967 0.012 117
Rhode Island 107 1379 0.010 102
Vermont 48 2040 0.008 79

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

Classification and Origin of A'HERN

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 A'HERN 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 A'HERN 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 A'HERN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 112 1.39
Mixed Race 97 1.21
Asian/Pacific 36 0.45
Black/African American 27 0.34
Native American/Alaskan 14 0.17
White (Caucasian) 7,760 96.45

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

Meaning of A'HERN in historical publications

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

Similar names to A'HERN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as A'HERN.

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 A'HERN

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