Horgan

At the 2020 census, 3,574 Americans bore the surname Horgan — 8,810th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 83,600.

By the numbers

People: 3,574
Rank: 8,810th
How common: 1 in 83,600
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó hArgáin, a contracted form of Ó hArragáin, from which Harrigan.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 2.4%
Black, not Hispanic 1.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Horgan

Sharon Horgan (born 1970)Irish actress, writer and comedian
John Horgan (1959–2024)Canadian politician
Maya Horgan Famodu (born 1991)Nigerian-American entrepreneur
Denis Horgan (1871–1922)Irish shot putter

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

Surnames like Horgan

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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.