Geraghty

3,368 people in the United States were counted with the surname Geraghty in the 2020 census, making it the 9,273rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 88,700.

By the numbers

People: 3,368
Rank: 9,273rd
How common: 1 in 88,700
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish, from a patronymic

From Irish mac Oireachtach (“son of a member of the Oireachtas”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.09%

Notable people called Geraghty

Brian Geraghty (born 1975)American actor
Agnes Geraghty (1907–1974)American swimmer, Olympic silver medalist
Carmelita Geraghty (1901–1966)American actress and painter

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

Surnames like Geraghty

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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.