O'Shane Surname
Approximately 40 people bear this surname
O'Shane Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 20 | 1:1,349,785 | 70,688 |
| Scotland | 16 | 1:334,614 | 15,044 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 4 | 1:935,804 | 21,348 |
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
O'Shane (15) may also be a first name.
O'Shane Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name O'Shane Come From? nationality or country of origin
O'Shane is found most frequently in Australia. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name O'Shane? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 3,100,440th most commonly held family name throughout the world, held by around 1 in 182,188,648 people. The last name occurs mostly in Oceania, where 50 percent of O'Shane live; 50 percent live in Australasia and 50 percent live in Australia and New Zealand. It is also the 2,900,335th most numerous given name worldwide It is held by 15 people.
The last name is most widespread in Australia, where it is borne by 20 people, or 1 in 1,349,785. In Australia O'Shane is most common in: Queensland, where 100 percent reside. Apart from Australia this last name occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in Scotland, where 40 percent reside and The United States, where 10 percent reside.
O'Shane Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of O'Shane has changed over time. In Scotland the number of people bearing the O'Shane last name expanded 400 percent between 1881 and 2014.
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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'Shane
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