O' Callaghan Surname

818,364th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 340 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
South Africa

O' Callaghan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

O' Callaghan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa3401:159,34617,918

O' Callaghan Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name O' Callaghan Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name O' Callaghan is found most in South Africa. It may be found as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name O' Callaghan? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 818,364th most commonly occurring last name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 21,433,959 people. The last name is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of O' Callaghan live; 100 percent live in Southern Africa and 100 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

The last name O' Callaghan is most commonly occurring in South Africa, where it is held by 340 people, or 1 in 159,346. In South Africa O' Callaghan is most common in: Gauteng, where 44 percent live, Western Cape, where 19 percent live and Northern Cape, where 14 percent live.

O' Callaghan Last Name Statistics demography

O' Callaghan earn more than fifty percent more than the average income. In South Africa they earn 68.26% more than the national average, earning R 399,840 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 O' Callaghan
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