Linehan

Linehan is the 9,380th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,327 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 89,800.

By the numbers

People: 3,327
Rank: 9,380th
How common: 1 in 89,800
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Laidhghneáin (“descendant of Laidhghneán”), perhaps a personal name derived from a diminutive form of laidhghein (“snow-birth”), from ladhg (“snow”) + gein (“birth”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Linehan

Marsha M. Linehan (born 1943)American psychologist
Graham Linehan (born 1968)Irish comedy writer

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

Surnames like Linehan

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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.