Leahy

Leahy is the 3,306th most common surname in the United States, shared by 10,675 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 28,000.

By the numbers

People: 10,675
Rank: 3,306th
How common: 1 in 28,000
Per 100,000: 3.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Laochda (“descendant of Laochda”), a personal name derived from laoch (“hero”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Leahy

Patrick Leahy (born 1940)American politician and lawyer
William D. Leahy (1875–1959)United States admiral, ambassador to France, Chief of Staff
Patrick Leahy (1877–1927)Irish athlete
Con Leahy (1876–1921)Irish athlete
Conor Leahy (born 1999)Australian cyclist

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

Surnames like Leahy

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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.