McCaighey Surname
Approximately 12 people bear this surname
McCaighey Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Ireland | 10 | 1:184,504 | 9,341 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
McCaighey Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name McCaighey Come From? nationality or country of origin
McCaighey is held by more people in Northern Ireland than any other country or territory. It can also be found as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name McCaighey? popularity and diffusion
It is the 5,587,209th most commonly occurring family name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 607,295,493 people. The last name McCaighey occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of McCaighey reside; 92 percent reside in Northern Europe and 92 percent reside in British Isles.
The surname McCaighey is most frequent in Northern Ireland, where it is carried by 10 people, or 1 in 184,504. In Northern Ireland McCaighey is mostly concentrated in: Ulster, where 100 percent reside. Outside of Northern Ireland this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also found in England, where 8 percent reside and Ukraine, where 8 percent reside.
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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
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