Oneill is used as a family name or surname in United States. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Oneill
No. of characters: 6
Origin: United States
Meaning: Currently, no meaning found for Oneill

How popular is Oneill?

Oneill is common in United States.

Oneill is ranked 9444 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Oneill bearers increased by 2.819796 per cent in 2010 US census to 50028 since 2000, the surname slipped by 56 spots and ranked at 689. The last name was found in around 170 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 92.67 94.28
Hispanic or Latino 3.99 2.75
Others 1.36 1.2
Black 0.94 1.01
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.77 0.54
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.27 0.22
Oneill is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Northern Ireland is ahead in terms of density. Around 57136 people have been found who wears Oneill as their family name. Oneill is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
5,565 Costa Rica8
9,568 Thailand8
95,557 Czech Republic6
918,840 India5
5,707 Nicaragua5
10,542 China4
122,390 Belarus4
25,074 Greece3
32,695 Nigeria3
4,915 Panama3
20,837 Venezuela2
50,640 Switzerland2
41,879 Turkey2
65,594 Belgium2
17,037 Trinidad and Tobago2
18,625 Japan2
28,083 Romania2
33,202 Saudi Arabia2
1,834 Malta2
34,572 Israel2
2,211 Brunei1
37,493 Austria1
10,190 Bahrain1
8,181 Botswana1
2,361 United States Virgin Islands1
13,606 Senegal1
11,510 Oman1
28,365 Kenya1
12,741 Ecuador1
6,212 Jamaica1
11,486 Estonia1
8,859 Iraq1
16,640 Hong Kong1
1,818 Guernsey1
1,254 Gibraltar1
17,236 Ghana1
2,196 Liberia1
12,745 Luxembourg1
8,371 Syria1
24,421 Slovakia1
3,071 Jersey1
2,057 Isle of Man1
24,176 Qatar1
7,340 Democratic Republic of The Congo1
5,924 Paraguay1
40,340 Malaysia1
6,967 Macedonia1
25,746 Finland1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
20,318 United Arab Emirates46
227,902 Russia37
17,489 Denmark30
21,901 Chile27
42,407 Sweden22
162,376 Ukraine20
78,041 Spain19
94,051 Kazakhstan19
15,050 Singapore18
62,309 Zimbabwe13
78,557 Netherlands13
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
67,110 Italy90
6,628 Portugal65
104,075 Brazil64
Countries with hundreds of Oneill:
4,834 Canada920
1,428 Scotland525
13,663 South Africa457
23,918 Germany437
706 Puerto Rico421
34,535 Philippines322
45,235 France220
1,854 Wales214
2,490 Uruguay196
4,101 New Zealand187
33,601 Argentina149
8,098 Colombia140
27,127 Mexico105
Countries with thousands of Oneill:
2,053 England3,883
340 Ireland2,298
2,121 Australia1,480
237 Northern Ireland1,383
1,569 Vietnam1,192
Countries with ten thousands of Oneill:
886 United States42,027
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

Owen Oneill was 27 years old when he migrated to USA during Irish famine on May 14, 1846. He lived in Great Britain where he worked as workman and took John Clark from Liverpool. U Oneill (35) Farmer, Daniel Oneill (18) Workman, Maid Mary Oneill, Mary Oneill (16) Workwoman, William Oneill (25) , Ellen Oneill (22) , Infant Timothy Oneill, 40 years old Owen Oneill, 21 years old Hugh Oneill, and 719 other Oneill around 53.08% of whom were workman while others worked as servant and spinster, bootmaker, weaver, shoemaker, blacksmith, house keeper, mason, clerk, merchant, coachmaker, dressmaker, carpenter, baker, tailoress, seamstress migrated to US.

Oneill Namesakes

  • Jennifer Oneill, TV Producer
  • Brian ONeill, Film editor
  • Eileen ONeill, Film producer
  • Katherine M. Oneill, Actor

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