Halligan

2,948 people in the United States were counted with the surname Halligan in the 2020 census, making it the 10,401st most common in the country. That is about one person in 101,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,948
Rank: 10,401st
How common: 1 in 101,000
Per 100,000: 0.99

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó hÁilleagáin (“descendant of Áilleagán”), a double diminutive of áille (“beauty”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Halligan

Dick Halligan (1943–2022)American musician and composer

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

Surnames like Halligan

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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.