Curran

Curran is the 1,450th most common surname in the United States, shared by 23,943 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 12,500.

By the numbers

People: 23,943
Rank: 1,450th
How common: 1 in 12,500
Per 100,000: 8.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Corraidhín (“descendant of Corraidhín”), a personal name derived from a diminutive of corradh (“spear”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Curran

Tony Curran (born 1969)Scottish actor
Brittany Curran (born 1990)American actress
Colin Curran (born 1947)Australian soccer player
Charles Courtney Curran (1861–1942)American painter
Connor Curran (born 2004)American freestyle skier
Kevin Curran (1957–2016)television writer
Sam Curran (born 1998)British cricketer
Kyliegh Curran (born 2005)American child actress

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

Surnames like Curran

Also a first name

Curran has been given to 1,188 American babies as a first name since 1916, peaking in 1993. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.