Berigan Surname

687,524th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 431 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Ireland

Berigan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Berigan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States2681:1,352,45994,008
Ireland1411:33,3972,828
Australia171:1,587,98278,599
Canada31:12,281,864364,614
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Ecuador11:15,905,84650,210
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland211:210,9469,809
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England51:4,875,074116,529
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1181:425,58231,158

The alternate forms: Berigàn (1) are calculated separately.

Berigan Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Berigan Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Berigan occurs in The United States more than any other country/territory. It may occur in the variant forms: Berigàn. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Berigan? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 687,524th most frequent surname on a global scale, held by around 1 in 16,908,459 people. The surname Berigan is primarily found in The Americas, where 62 percent of Berigan live; 61 percent live in North America and 61 percent live in Anglo-North America.

It is most frequently held in The United States, where it is carried by 268 people, or 1 in 1,352,459. In The United States it is most numerous in: Wisconsin, where 12 percent are found, Ohio, where 12 percent are found and Nebraska, where 9 percent are found. Beside The United States Berigan occurs in 5 countries. It is also common in Ireland, where 33 percent are found and Australia, where 4 percent are found.

Berigan Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Berigan has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Berigan surname expanded 227 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in Ireland it expanded 671 percent between 1901 and 2014.

Berigan Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those bearing the surname is primarily Catholic (100%) in Ireland.

In The United States those bearing the Berigan last name are 10.37% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 57.14% being registered with the political party.

Berigan earn notably more than the average income. In United States they earn 18.04% more than the national average, earning $50,931 USD per year.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Berigan
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