Cavanaugh

16,961 people in the United States were counted with the surname Cavanaugh in the 2020 census, making it the 2,076th most common in the country. That is about one person in 17,600.

By the numbers

People: 16,961
Rank: 2,076th
How common: 1 in 17,600
Per 100,000: 5.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Variant of Kavanagh.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 2.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Cavanaugh

Christine Cavanaugh (1963–2014)American voice actress
Hobart Cavanaugh (1886–1950)American actor
Chris Cavanaugh (born 1962)American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, former world record-holder
Allison Cavanaugh (born 1973)Canadian swimmer

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

Surnames like Cavanaugh

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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.