Donahue

29,903 people in the United States were counted with the surname Donahue in the 2020 census, making it the 1,152nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 9,996.

By the numbers

People: 29,903
Rank: 1,152nd
How common: 1 in 9,996
Per 100,000: 10.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Donnchadha (“descendant of Donnchadh”), a personal name composed of the elements donn (“brown-haired”) + cath (“battle”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Donahue

Troy Donahue (1936–2001)American actor
Phil Donahue (1935–2024)American media personality, writer and film producer
Elinor Donahue (born 1937)actress
Claire Donahue (born 1989)American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion
Jocelin Donahue (born 1981)American actress
Christopher T. Donahue (born 1969)American Army general
Jerry Donahue (born 1946)American musician
James Donahue (1885–1966)athletics competitor

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

Surnames like Donahue

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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.