Egan

22,300 people in the United States were counted with the surname Egan in the 2020 census, making it the 1,569th most common in the country. That is about one person in 13,400.

By the numbers

People: 22,300
Rank: 1,569th
How common: 1 in 13,400
Per 100,000: 7.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

From Irish Ó hAodhagáin, from Old Irish Áedacán, from áed (“fire”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Egan

Richard Egan (1921–1987)American actor
Jack Egan (1878–1950)American boxer

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

Also a first name

Egan has been given to 1,268 American babies as a first name since 1915, peaking in 2019. 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.