Donnelly

Donnelly is the 1,138th most common surname in the United States, shared by 30,193 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 9,900.

By the numbers

People: 30,193
Rank: 1,138th
How common: 1 in 9,900
Per 100,000: 10.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

From the Irish surname, from Ó Donnghaile (“descendant of Donnghal”), from donn (“brown-haired”) + gal (“valor”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Donnelly

Meg Donnelly (born 2000)American actress
Joe Donnelly (born 1955)American politician
Martin Donnelly (born 1964)racecar driver
Ignatius Loyola Donnelly (1831–1901)American politician
Simon Donnelly (born 1974)Scottish footballer
Laura Donnelly (born 1982)Northern Irish actress
Ruth Donnelly (1896–1982)actress
Euphrasia Donnelly (1905–1963)American swimmer

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

Surnames like Donnelly

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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.