Ireland

14,401 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ireland in the 2020 census, making it the 2,448th most common in the country. That is about one person in 20,800.

By the numbers

People: 14,401
Rank: 2,448th
How common: 1 in 20,800
Per 100,000: 4.8

Where the name comes from

From Middle English Ireland, Irelond, Irlond, Irland, from Old English Īrland, from Old Irish Ériu + land. See Irish.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.3%
Black, not Hispanic 6.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Ireland

Stephen Ireland (born 1986)Irish association football player
Jill Ireland (1936–1990)English actress
Kathy Ireland (born 1963)American model and businesswoman
John Ireland (1914–1992)Canadian actor
Marin Ireland (born 1979)American actress
John Ireland (1879–1962)British composer and teacher of music
Innes Ireland (1930–1993)British racecar driver
Kylie Ireland (born 1970)American pornographic actress

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

Also a first name

Ireland has been given to 6,556 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 2009. See it as a given name.

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.