The MULCAHY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,444	4995	0.002	24
United States (1880 census)	1,270	4457	0.003	25
Change since 1880	+5174	-538	-0.001	-1
Other Countries
Australia	1,278	1295	0.008	78
United Kingdom	1,723	3335	0.004	38

Top States for MULCAHY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	874	943	0.014	138
New York	668	2650	0.004	35
California	448	5849	0.001	13
Illinois	416	2883	0.003	33
Florida	396	4729	0.002	25
Top States for MULCAHY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	874	943	0.014	138
Vermont	61	1670	0.010	100
New Hampshire	116	1568	0.009	94
Montana	80	1298	0.009	89
Rhode Island	73	2087	0.007	70

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

Classification and Origin of MULCAHY

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 MULCAHY 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 MULCAHY 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 MULCAHY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	83	1.29
Mixed Race	71	1.1
Asian/Pacific	33	0.51
Native American/Alaskan	24	0.37
Black/African American	10	0.16
White (Caucasian)	6,223	96.57

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

Similar names to MULCAHY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MULCAHY.

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.