Hickey

At the 2020 census, 27,647 Americans bore the surname Hickey — 1,253rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 10,800.

By the numbers

People: 27,647
Rank: 1,253rd
How common: 1 in 10,800
Per 100,000: 9.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

From Irish Ó hÍcidhe (“descendant of a healer”), from ící (“healer”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Hickey

Aaron Hickey (born 2002)Scottish association football player
William Hickey (1928–1997)American actor
James Aloysius Hickey (1920–2004)Catholic cardinal
John Benjamin Hickey (born 1963)American actor
Kenny Hickey (born 1966)American guitarist and singer

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

Surnames like Hickey

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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.