The MAGUIRE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	15,853	2100	0.006	59
United States (1880 census)	5,972	1033	0.012	119
Change since 1880	+9881	-1067	-0.006	-60
Other Countries
Australia	2,927	529	0.018	179
United Kingdom	11,825	496	0.026	257

Top States for MAGUIRE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	2,003	350	0.032	315
New York	1,554	1084	0.008	82
California	1,346	2187	0.004	40
Pennsylvania	1,342	932	0.011	109
New Jersey	1,163	658	0.014	138
Top States for MAGUIRE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	2,003	350	0.032	315
Rhode Island	282	406	0.027	269
Delaware	180	686	0.023	230
New Hampshire	269	646	0.022	218
Maine	277	870	0.022	217

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

Classification and Origin of MAGUIRE

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 MAGUIRE 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 MAGUIRE 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 MAGUIRE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	216	1.36
Mixed Race	151	0.95
Asian/Pacific	75	0.47
Native American/Alaskan	35	0.22
Black/African American	33	0.21
White (Caucasian)	15,346	96.8

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

Similar names to MAGUIRE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MAGUIRE.

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.