Callaghan

At the 2020 census, 6,017 Americans bore the surname Callaghan — 5,576th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 49,700.

By the numbers

People: 6,017
Rank: 5,576th
How common: 1 in 49,700
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Variant of Callahan.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Callaghan

James Callaghan (1912–2005)former prime minister of the United Kingdom
Ian Callaghan (born 1942)English footballer
Daniel J. Callaghan (1890–1942)United States Navy Admiral and Navy Medal of Honor recipient

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

Surnames like Callaghan

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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.