Doherty

At the 2020 census, 26,897 Americans bore the surname Doherty — 1,280th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 11,100.

By the numbers

People: 26,897
Rank: 1,280th
How common: 1 in 11,100
Per 100,000: 9.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

From Irish Ó Dochartaigh.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Doherty

Shannen Doherty (1971–2024)American actress
Peter C. Doherty (born 1940)Australian immunologist
Matt Doherty (born 1992)Irish association football player
Pete Doherty (born 1979)English musician, actor and poet
Laurence Doherty (1875–1919)English tennis player
Ken Doherty (born 1969)Irish snooker player
Reginald Doherty (1872–1910)English tennis player
Denny Doherty (1940–2007)Canadian singer

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

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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.