Dolan

Dolan is the 1,312th most common surname in the United States, shared by 26,300 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 11,400.

By the numbers

People: 26,300
Rank: 1,312th
How common: 1 in 11,400
Per 100,000: 8.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

From Irish Ó Duibhlin.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Dolan

Xavier Dolan (born 1989)Canadian filmmaker
Timothy M. Dolan (born 1950)American Catholic cardinal, Archibishop of New York
Ryan Dolan (born 1985)Irish pop singer
Tom Dolan (born 1975)American swimmer
Paul Dolan (born 1966)Canadian soccer player
Monica Dolan (born 1969)British actress
Charles Dolan (1926–2024)American billionaire businessman
Joe Dolan (1939–2007)Irish entertainer, recording artist, and pop singer

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

Surnames like Dolan

Also a first name

Dolan has been given to 1,701 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 1996. 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.