Hanlon

10,022 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hanlon in the 2020 census, making it the 3,474th most common in the country. That is about one person in 29,800.

By the numbers

People: 10,022
Rank: 3,474th
How common: 1 in 29,800
Per 100,000: 3.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó hAnluain (“descendant of Anluan”), a personal name composed of the intensive prefix an- + lúan (“light, radiance; warrior”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Hanlon

Glen Hanlon (born 1957)Canadian ice hockey player
Paul Hanlon (born 1990)Scottish association football player

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

Surnames like Hanlon

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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.