Connelly

22,062 people in the United States were counted with the surname Connelly in the 2020 census, making it the 1,587th most common in the country. That is about one person in 13,500.

By the numbers

People: 22,062
Rank: 1,587th
How common: 1 in 13,500
Per 100,000: 7.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicised form of the Irish surnames Ó Conghalaigh and Ó Conghaile, patronyms of the given name Conghalach.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 3.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Connelly

Jennifer Connelly (born 1970)American actress
Michael Connelly (born 1956)American novelist, journalist, crime fiction writer, and screenwriter
John Connelly (1938–2012)English footballer
Marc Connelly (1890–1980)American playwright
Christopher Connelly (1941–1988)American actor
Edward Connelly (1858–1928)actor
Bobby Connelly (1909–1922)American actor
Peter Connelly (born 1972)video game composer and sound designer

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

Surnames like Connelly

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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.