Begley

8,092 people in the United States were counted with the surname Begley in the 2020 census, making it the 4,233rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 36,900.

By the numbers

People: 8,092
Rank: 4,233rd
How common: 1 in 36,900
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Beaglaoich (“descendant of Beaglaoch”), a personal name composed of the elements beag (“small”) + laoch (“warrior, hero”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.4%
Black, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Begley

Ed Begley (1901–1970)American actor
Ed Begley, Jr. (born 1949)American actor
Michael Begley (1872–1938)American rower
Louis Begley (born 1933)Polish–American novelist

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

Surnames like Begley

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.