Carney

31,572 people in the United States were counted with the surname Carney in the 2020 census, making it the 1,089th most common in the country. That is about one person in 9,467.

By the numbers

People: 31,572
Rank: 1,089th
How common: 1 in 9,467
Per 100,000: 10.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.5%
Black, not Hispanic 8.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Carney

Mark Carney (born 1965)24th prime minister of Canada since 2025
Art Carney (1918–2003)American actor and comedian
David Carney (born 1983)Australian association football player
John Carney (born 1956)Governor of Delaware from 2017 to 2025
Karen Carney (born 1987)English association football player
Reeve Carney (born 1983)American singer-songwriter and actor
Patrick Carney (born 1980)American drummer
Harry Carney (1910–1974)American jazz musician

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

Surnames like Carney

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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.