Kavanagh

At the 2020 census, 5,324 Americans bore the surname Kavanagh — 6,166th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 56,100.

By the numbers

People: 5,324
Rank: 6,166th
How common: 1 in 56,100
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Borrowed from Irish Caomhánach.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Kavanagh

Niamh Kavanagh (born 1968)Irish singer
Ken Kavanagh (1923–2019)Australian motorcycle racer
Patrick Kavanagh (1904–1967)Irish poet
Brad Kavanagh (born 1992)British actor
Julia Kavanagh (1824–1877)Irish author
Fergus Kavanagh (born 1985)field hockey player
Chris Kavanagh (born 1985)association football referee
Graham Kavanagh (born 1973)Irish footballer

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

Surnames like Kavanagh

Kavanaugh

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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.