Horan

At the 2020 census, 9,902 Americans bore the surname Horan — 3,514th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 30,200.

By the numbers

People: 9,902
Rank: 3,514th
How common: 1 in 30,200
Per 100,000: 3.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish, from a patronymic

Anglicized form of Irish Ó hUghróin (“descendant of Ughrón”) or Ó hOdhráin (“descendant of Odhrán”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Horan

Niall Horan (born 1993)Irish singer-songwriter
Neil Horan (born 1947)laicised Irish priest known for disrupting major sporting events in 2003-04
Roy Horan (1950–2021)American actor
James Horan (born 1954)American actor and voice actor

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

Surnames like Horan

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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.