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The DOONAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,174 20898 0 4
United States (1880 census) 330 13298 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +844 -7600 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 162 9187 0.001 10
United Kingdom 488 8998 0.001 11
Top States for DOONAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 120 19201 0.000 4
New York 111 16457 0.001 6
Massachusetts 106 7474 0.002 17
Illinois 92 14082 0.001 7
Pennsylvania 77 18111 0.001 6
Top States for DOONAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 68 6478 0.002 23
Rhode Island 23 6574 0.002 22
Kansas 45 7048 0.002 17
Massachusetts 106 7474 0.002 17
Connecticut 40 11360 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of DOONAN

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 DOONAN 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 DOONAN 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 DOONAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 12 1.02
White (Hispanic) 9 0.77
Black/African American 6 0.51
White (Caucasian) 1,142 97.27
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of DOONAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to DOONAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOONAN.

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 DOONAN

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