Bresnahan

Bresnahan is the 9,616th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,229 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 92,600.

By the numbers

People: 3,229
Rank: 9,616th
How common: 1 in 92,600
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Brosnacháin (“descendant of Brosnachán”), a personal name derived from Brosna, the name of a town and a river in County Kerry.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.09%

Surnames like Bresnahan

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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.