Ahern

At the 2020 census, 7,916 Americans bore the surname Ahern — 4,334th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 37,800.

By the numbers

People: 7,916
Rank: 4,334th
How common: 1 in 37,800
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish Ó hEachthighearna (“descendant of Eachthighearna”), a personal name composed by the elements each (“horse”) + tighearna (“master, lord”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Ahern described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Ahern

Bertie Ahern (born 1951)11th Taoiseach of Ireland from 1997 to 2008
Cecelia Ahern (born 1981)Irish novelist
Lassie Lou Ahern (1920–2018)American child actress
Peggy Ahern (1917–2012)actress

People named Ahern with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Ahern

Ahearn

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.