Donegan

Donegan is the 8,257th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,845 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 77,700.

By the numbers

People: 3,845
Rank: 8,257th
How common: 1 in 77,700
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Donnagáin (“descendant of Donnagán”), a personal name derived from a double diminutive of donn (“brown”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.2%
Black, not Hispanic 10.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

1 category is not listed because nobody with this surname reported that background.

Notable people called Donegan

Lonnie Donegan (1931–2002)Scottish-born skiffle musician
Dan Donegan (born 1968)American guitarist
Dorothy Donegan (1924–1998)American jazz pianist

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

Surnames like Donegan

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.