Cloughessy Surname

1,994,173rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 88 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Australia
Highest density in:
Australia

Cloughessy Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Cloughessy Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Australia461:586,86342,409
United States421:8,629,975373,648
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland111:402,71514,385
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States121:4,184,890180,076

Cloughessy Last Name Facts

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

The last name Cloughessy is held by more people in Australia than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Cloughessy.

How Common Is The Last Name Cloughessy? popularity and diffusion

It is the 1,994,173rd most frequently held family name on earth It is held by around 1 in 82,813,022 people. It occurs mostly in Oceania, where 52 percent of Cloughessy are found; 52 percent are found in Australasia and 52 percent are found in Australia and New Zealand.

This last name is most frequently occurring in Australia, where it is held by 46 people, or 1 in 586,863. In Australia it is mostly concentrated in: New South Wales, where 48 percent are found, Western Australia, where 35 percent are found and Queensland, where 17 percent are found. Apart from Australia this surname occurs in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 48 percent are found.

Cloughessy Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Cloughessy has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Cloughessy last name increased 350 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Cloughessy Last Name Statistics demography

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

In The United States those holding the Cloughessy surname are 16.77% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 70% registered with the political party.

Cloughessy earn notably more than the average income. In United States they earn 22.76% more than the national average, earning $52,970 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 Cloughessy
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