Gilroy

3,730 people in the United States were counted with the surname Gilroy in the 2020 census, making it the 8,486th most common in the country. That is about one person in 80,100.

By the numbers

People: 3,730
Rank: 8,486th
How common: 1 in 80,100
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

From Middle English Gilry, from Irish Giolla rua (“servant of the red-haired lad”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 2.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Gilroy

Tony Gilroy (born 1956)American screenwriter and director
Dan Gilroy (born 1959)American screenwriter
Norman Thomas Gilroy (1896–1977)Catholic cardinal
Freddie Gilroy (1936–2016)Northern Irish boxer
Frank D. Gilroy (1925–2015)American playwright, screenwriter, producer, and director

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

Surnames like Gilroy

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.