Boylan

At the 2020 census, 6,095 Americans bore the surname Boylan — 5,504th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 49,000.

By the numbers

People: 6,095
Rank: 5,504th
How common: 1 in 49,000
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Baoighealláin (“descendant of Baoigheallán”), a diminutive of Baoigheall, a personal name composed of the elements baoth (“vain, foolish”) + geall (“pledge, token”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Boylan

Lydia Boylan (born 1987)Irish sport cyclist
Lynn Boylan (born 1976)Irish Sinn Féin politician

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

Surnames like Boylan

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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.