Gallagher

At the 2020 census, 67,066 Americans bore the surname Gallagher — 488th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 4,457.

By the numbers

People: 67,066
Rank: 488th
How common: 1 in 4,457
Per 100,000: 22.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

From Irish Ó Gallachóir, from Old Irish Ó Gallchobhair, Ó Gallchobhoir, a surname meaning "descendants of Gallchobair".

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Gallagher

Noel Gallagher (born 1967)British singer and guitarist
Liam Gallagher (born 1972)British singer
Gallagher (1946–2022)American stand-up comedian
Conor Gallagher (born 2000)English association football player
Peter Gallagher (born 1955)American actor
Rory Gallagher (1948–1995)Irish guitarist
David Gallagher (born 1985)American actor
Aidan Gallagher (born 2003)American actor

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

Surnames like Gallagher

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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.