Donoghue

Donoghue is the 9,738th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,181 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 94,000.

By the numbers

People: 3,181
Rank: 9,738th
How common: 1 in 94,000
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

From Irish Ó Donnchadha (“descendant of Duncan”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Donoghue

Emma Donoghue (born 1969)Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian
Brooke Donoghue (born 1995)New Zealand rower
Joan Donoghue (born 1956)American judge

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

Surnames like Donoghue

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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.