Bresnehan Surname

935,326th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 281 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Australia
Highest density in:
Australia

Bresnehan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Bresnehan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Australia1751:154,26116,255
United States921:3,939,771214,590
New Zealand81:566,04034,598
Canada31:12,281,864364,614
England21:27,859,030389,889
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland161:276,86711,455
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England21:12,187,685173,419
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1741:288,61323,092

Bresnehan Last Name Facts

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

The surname Bresnehan is carried by more people in Australia than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Bresnehan? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 935,326th most widely held surname on earth, held by around 1 in 25,934,327 people. The surname is mostly found in Oceania, where 65 percent of Bresnehan live; 65 percent live in Australasia and 65 percent live in Australia and New Zealand.

Bresnehan is most commonly occurring in Australia, where it is borne by 175 people, or 1 in 154,261. In Australia Bresnehan is most numerous in: Tasmania, where 81 percent reside, Queensland, where 10 percent reside and Victoria, where 7 percent reside. Outside of Australia it exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 33 percent reside and New Zealand, where 3 percent reside.

Bresnehan Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Bresnehan has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Bresnehan surname contracted 47 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Bresnehan Last Name Statistics demography

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

In The United States those bearing the Bresnehan last name are 15.73% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 62.5% being registered with the political party.

Bresnehan earn marginally less than the average income. In United States they earn 1.8% less than the national average, earning $42,373 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 Bresnehan
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