Herlihy

At the 2020 census, 2,541 Americans bore the surname Herlihy — 11,789th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 118,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,541
Rank: 11,789th
How common: 1 in 118,000
Per 100,000: 0.85

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó hIarfhlatha (“descendant of Iarfhlaith”), a personal name composed of the elements iarthar (“west”) + flaith (“lord”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Surnames like Herlihy

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.