Looney

At the 2020 census, 12,170 Americans bore the surname Looney — 2,882nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 24,600.

By the numbers

People: 12,170
Rank: 2,882nd
How common: 1 in 24,600
Per 100,000: 4.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Luanaigh (“descendant of Luanach”), a personal name based on Middle Irish lúan (“light, warrior's halo, warrior”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.4%
Black, not Hispanic 9.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Looney

Kevon Looney (born 1996)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Looney

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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.