Houlihan

Houlihan is the 8,328th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,806 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 78,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,806
Rank: 8,328th
How common: 1 in 78,500
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish Ó hUallacháin (“descendant of Uallachán”), a personal name derived from a diminutive of uallach (“proud, arrogant”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Houlihan

Shelby Houlihan (born 1993)American middle- and long-distance runner

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

Surnames like Houlihan

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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.