Hartigan

Hartigan is the 11,321st most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,665 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 112,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,665
Rank: 11,321st
How common: 1 in 112,000
Per 100,000: 0.89

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó hArtagáin (“descendant of Artagán”), from a double diminutive of art (“bear”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 94.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Hartigan

Joan Hartigan (1912–2000)Australian tennis player
Grace Hartigan (1922–2008)American artist
Mark Hartigan (born 1977)Canadian ice hockey player

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

Surnames like Hartigan

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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.