Hannigan

4,275 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hannigan in the 2020 census, making it the 7,514th most common in the country. That is about one person in 69,900.

By the numbers

People: 4,275
Rank: 7,514th
How common: 1 in 69,900
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó hAnnagáin (“descendant of Annagán”), a hypocoristic form of Annach (“Hanna”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Hannigan

Alyson Hannigan (born 1974)American actress and television presenter
Barbara Hannigan (born 1971)Canadian operatic soprano
Lisa Hannigan (born 1981)Irish musician

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

Surnames like Hannigan

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.