Flanagan

At the 2020 census, 29,609 Americans bore the surname Flanagan — 1,166th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 10,100.

By the numbers

People: 29,609
Rank: 1,166th
How common: 1 in 10,100
Per 100,000: 9.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

From Irish Ó Flannagáin (“descendant of Flannagán”), a personal name from a double diminutive of flann (“blood red”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.3%
Black, not Hispanic 6.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Flanagan

Richard Flanagan (born 1961)Australian writer and novelist
John Flanagan (1868–1938)Irish-American hammer thrower
Jon Flanagan (born 1993)English association football player
Fionnula Flanagan (born 1941)Irish actress
Tommy Flanagan (born 1965)British actor
Mike Flanagan (born 1978)American filmmaker
Tommy Flanagan (1930–2001)American jazz pianist
Shalane Flanagan (born 1981)American distance runner

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

Surnames like Flanagan

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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.