Healy

At the 2020 census, 20,992 Americans bore the surname Healy — 1,679th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 14,200.

By the numbers

People: 20,992
Rank: 1,679th
How common: 1 in 14,200
Per 100,000: 7.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó hÉilidhe (“descendant of the claimant”), from éilidhe (“claimant”), or from Irish Ó hÉalaighthe (“descendant of Éaladhach”), a personal name from ealadhach (“ingenious”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Healy

David Healy (born 1979)Northern Irish footballer & manager
Ben Healy (born 2000)Irish cyclist
Cecil Healy (1881–1918)Australian swimmer
Fran Healy (born 1973)Scottish singer and songwriter
George Peter Alexander Healy (1813–1894)American painter
Mary Healy (1918–2015)American actress
Ted Healy (1896–1937)American vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor
Pat Healy (born 1971)American actor

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

Surnames like Healy

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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.