Lynch

At the 2020 census, 114,010 Americans bore the surname Lynch — 269th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 2,622.

By the numbers

People: 114,010
Rank: 269th
How common: 1 in 2,622
Per 100,000: 38.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

As an Irish surname, from Ó Loingsigh (“descendant of Loingseach”), from long (“ship”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.5%
Black, not Hispanic 11.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Lynch

David Lynch (1946–2025)American filmmaker
Jane Lynch (born 1960)American actress
Evanna Lynch (born 1991)Irish actress
Ross Lynch (born 1995)American actor and singer
Lashana Lynch (born 1987)British actress
Becky Lynch (born 1987)Irish professional wrestler and actress
Kelly Lynch (born 1959)American actress
John Carroll Lynch (born 1963)American character actor and film director

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

Surnames like Lynch

Lynn

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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.